On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:52:25PM -0700, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Kevin Sullivan (ksulliva@psc.edu):
> > 
> > The deciding factor may be NetBSD support, so:  using 1.6 (i386 mostly),
> > which is better supported, umass via USB2 or firewire?  Is this likely to
> > change soon?  Also, does one or the other bus have serious design flaws
> > which will cripple it?
> 
> Neither works with 1.6 that I know of.  Let me also toss the
> cup of gasoline that is Firewire2.
> 

USB2 works just fine with 1.6 at least.  I've got an external 3.5" IDE->
USB2 enclosure (marked ADSTech on the case, see 
http://www.adstech.com/products/USB_2_Drivekit/intro/USB804intro.asp?pid=USBX-804
for product info).

It shows up as:

umass0 at uhub3 port 4 configuration 2 interface 0
umass0: DMI USB 2.0 Storage Adaptor, rev 2.00/11.10, addr 2
umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only
scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, 1 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <WDC WD12, 00JB-75CRA0, 16.0> SCSI0 0/direct fixed
sd0: 111 GB, 114440 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 234375000 sectors

Performance wise, I get well over 10MByte/sec writing to it (I use it for 
backups), so it's perfectly acceptable WRT performance for my needs. ;-)

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