Re: Preparation advice?

[Ewan Grantham <ewan.grantham@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:00:54 -0500, Guy <bugzilla@watkins-home.com> wrote:
> This is normal (IMO) for a 2.4 kernel.
> I think it has been fixed in the 2.6 kernel.  But I have never used the
> newer kernel, so I can't confirm that.  It may have been a newer version of
> mdadm, not the kernel, not sure.

A rather different definition of normal - but for a computer system I
guess I shouldn't be that surprised :-)

I'm not overly inclined to move to the 2.6 kernel at the moment as my
experience with IEEE1394 under 2.6 has been very mixed. I think it's
because it's easier to see what's happening "under the hood" with the
2.4 code.

Since I gather you haven't seen any lost data from this, then I'm
going to start filling up. Did a couple test captures today without
any dropped frames, so I'm feeling a bit more comfortable that this is
going to work.

Assuming I bought some more drives in the future, would I be better
off getting another firewire card or two, or going with USB 2?

Thanks again for all the help and advice,
Ewan