Re: [cobalt-users] Firewire

[Malcolm McLeary <mmcleary@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Bruce,

on 20/8/02 3:45 PM, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

>> So I need to add an external drive to my Qube to act as a
>> backup media server...I'd love to use firewire as those
>> drives tend to be cheaper than the SCSI ones, and easier
>> to plug in and swap.
>> 
>> Has anyone pulled this off yet?  How difficult?
> 
> It will be _very_ difficult as we do not offer FireWire ports on any of our
> servers or appliances...

But the Qube3 has a vacant PCI slot ... my old PowerMac 8500 didn't have
firewire until I added a Maxtor card.

> USB isn't an option either as USB storage is not supported by the 2.2
> kernel...

That is the real issue ... support for the necessary driver.

"Backup Media Server" ... so you want to write backups to the firewire
drive?

This can be done, but what you need is Dantz Retrospect 6.0 Multi Server
installed on a PC with a Firewire card.  The latest version of Retrospect
comes with a Linux client which works on the Qube3.  I also do backups to
CDRW and to an external Firewire VXA tape drive.  The Qube3 just sits on my
LAN the only change was installing the Retrospect client rpm.

Cheers,  Malcolm