Re: OT - Firewire drive recommendation?

From: Les Mikesell (lesmikesell_at_gmail.com)
Date: 08/30/05

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    To: thomas.cameron@camerontech.com, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:16:30 -0500

    On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:26, Thomas Cameron wrote:

    > I know zero about firewire - I've never used it or even touched it.
    >
    > I have read that you can set up clustering on an external firewire drive
    > connected to two Linux machines. What I don't know is how to do it - I
    > know nothing about firewire, historically being a USB user. This is *not*
    > for a production environment - it is for my own education at home.
    >
    > What hardware do I need to use to let a single external firewire disk be
    > accessed by two Linux servers at the same time? I figure I need the
    > external enclosure, a firewire card for each server, and some sort of a
    > firewire hub (if there is such a thing). Am I on the right track?
    >
    > Anyone done this and had any experiences good or bad?

    I haven't done it, although I have some not-very-good experience
    with trying to run software RAID1 between an internal IDE drive
    and and external firewire, but this article might be what you
    want:
    http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10g.html 

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  Les Mikesell
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