Hello,

I am thinking about buying me a Firewire Controller Card (Adaptec) to connect an external firewire encloser with 2 HDD's to it. I have digged arround in the forum a little and it might be that I am running into some problems. I also where not able to find my answers at redht.com either.

My Questions:

1. REd Hat ES 3 or 4. Does that support 1394b Firewire cards ?

2. Which vendor of firewire cards would you recommend...for SCSI it is for example adaptec ?

3. Or would it be easier for me to use a USB 2.0 encloser because USB is more supported by Red Hat ?

I am worried that I get me some hardware and then it does not work with Redhat.

Please let me know if you have any advises, recommendations or ideas.

Thank you
Marcus

I am not too familiar with Firewire but in Kernel 2.6, there is Firewire support, so I assume RHEL4 will be able to make use of it.

But is there anything regarding the chipsets I should be aware of ?

Red Hat does not support firewire in either RHEL 3 or 4. The ieee1394 module is available in their kernel-usnupported rpm for RHEL 3. The kernel-usnupported rpm in RHEL 3 contains the modules found in the kernel.org kernel but are not supported by Red Hat. The drivers are provided as a courtesy.

As far as RHEL 4 goes, firewire support is not available or supported

Under Gnome ~ my RHEL4 clealry shows Firewire configuration:

even though hardware.redhat.com/hcl doesn't provide mucho, ieee1394 is supported on k2.6

THanks for your replies. As soon I ahve the enclosure I will give it a try and then we will see !