From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RPvGD-0002h6-Nv for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:03:37 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPvGB-0002gp-Ke for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:03:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPvG2-0003f8-JT for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:03:35 -0500 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RPvG2-0003eY-Dg for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:03:26 -0500 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RPvG1-0000m1-3Z for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:03:25 +0100 Received: from 178-26-101-221-dynip.superkabel.de ([178.26.101.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:03:25 +0100 Received: from kxroberto by 178-26-101-221-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:03:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: grub-devel@gnu.org From: Robert Subject: Re: [FEATURE REQUEST] firewire IEEE 1394 (ohci) module Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:03:18 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4EC05F17.8070108@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 178-26-101-221-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110928 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 In-Reply-To: <4EC05F17.8070108@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:03:36 -0000 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.)