|
From: | Robert |
Subject: | Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] firewire IEEE 1394 (ohci) module |
Date: | Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:03:18 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 |
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
On 14.11.2011 00:55, Robert wrote:I'd like to boot from Grub into Firewire IEEE 1394 (ohci) ;-)That's one thing we don't risk having soon. Few people even have such hardware (my laptop has no firewire connector at all). Some of my test machines have it but I have no firewire HDD. Even fewer of these people have required skills (it requires someone who had a similar experience like Aleš or me). And even less have motivation. Additionally since most of external HDDs supporting firewire also support USB, it seems pretty pointless.
the FiWi HD here has USB here too. Yet via USB the usable HD speed is 2x .. 4x slower on large file transfer, and it seems even slower on many small files. A HD on Firewire here is quite as fast as an internal one - seen on two laptops. So via Firewire its feels really usable, while on USB its half way to Knoppix ..
(as far as Linux is concerned, currently I help me using FiWi by loading the Linux kernel&initrd from another device, which needs special updates etc.)
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |