On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden at gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 18:43, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: > > My experience with Firewire has not been all that good. I figured that > > since Apple had been using it for years, and it is an IEEE standard, that > > Firewire would be more reliable than USB. I was also a bit wary as the > USB > > disk drivers on SuSE gave warning messages saying they might not be very > > reliable. > > Same here. I just migrated our backups from Firewire 800 to USB2, > because the Firewire was causing us a kernel crash per week and we > were having to reboot our server because of the backup drives. This on > three different machines, one running SuSE 10 and two others with > CentOS 5 with the centosplus kernel. > > I haven't had any problem with the machine since the FW drive was plugged > in and left plugged in since I have not been physically back on location. > What causes this crash and how would I know it is related to FW or not, in > the event but hopefully never, the system does crash? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080817/f06c7c5b/attachment-0005.html>