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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I’m about to order a LaCie d2 250gig
drive, and two adaptec 4300 firewire PCI cards.. The d2 series of LaCie
drives seem to still have the Oxford 911 chipset. I didn’t want to
risk the “Big Disk” series that reportedly has the 912 chipset.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Can anyone warn me against this order?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Bruce Carter
[mailto:bruce.carter@oracle.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 05, 2004 3:49
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Stephen.Mattin@ftid.com;
josh@newgistics.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
firewire-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com; Chapman, Kyle;
firewire-users@oss.oracle.com; Chapman, Kyle; firewire-users@oss.oracle.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Firewire-users]
Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Well the first thing we kneed to know is
what drives you are using and what interface cards you are using. The
interface cards are not usually the problem.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>We have found that the question is not as
simple as Oxford 911 vs Oxford 912.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>For instance the latest LaCie drives sem
to work OK whereas the latest WD drives don't although the earlier drives do.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
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worth a call to Oxford Semiconductors and I will do this on Monday.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>In the meantime can you call your disk
manufacturer. I know Western Digital were stunned when they heard that
anybody was trying to do this.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
firewire-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com
[mailto:firewire-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com]<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Stephen.Mattin@ftid.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 05 March 2004 21:24<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> josh@newgistics.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
firewire-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com; Chapman, Kyle;
firewire-users@oss.oracle.com; Chapman, Kyle; firewire-users@oss.oracle.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Firewire-users]
Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3</span></font></p>
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</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial'>I have not tried the latest kernels Manish posted,</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>but
the linux1394.org site still lists Firewire 800</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>(IEEE1394b)
compatibilty as 'ToDo'.</span></font> <br>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>I have
tried OxSemi 912 chips and managed to mount</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>drives,
but they quickly report lots (GigaBytes) of</span></font> <br>
<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>bus
resets and various other errors.</span></font> <br>
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<font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Stephen
A. Mattin<br>
Stephen.Mattin@FTID.com<br>
603 770 3390</span></font> </p>
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font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Josh Hildebrand
<josh@newgistics.com></span></font></b> <br>
<font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'>Sent
by: firewire-users-bounces@oss.oracle.com</span></font> </p>
<p><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial'>03/05/2004
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To: "Chapman, Kyle"
<Kyle_Chapman@g1.com>, firewire-users@oss.oracle.com</span></font> <br>
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cc: </span></font> <br>
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Subject: RE: [Firewire-users]
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</span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New"'>Does RAC on Firewire work w/ Oxford 912 chipset?
I know oxford 911 chipset<br>
does. Anyone tested their new one(s)? I've read they have 912 and a
922.<br>
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Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW912 FireWire800 (IEEE1394b) to IDE (ATA7) bridge<br>
chip is enabling LaCie's new Big Disk Dual FireWire drive to achieve data<br>
transfer rates up to 88Mbyte/s.<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Chapman, Kyle [mailto:Kyle_Chapman@G1.com]<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:57 AM<br>
> To: Josh Hildebrand<br>
> Subject: RE: [Firewire-users] Oracle RAC on RHEL3 or WBEL3<br>
> <br>
> lacie disks advertise with the oxford chipset, ive used ones from others<br>
> as well...<br>
> the fedora1 stuff is supposed to work also so im downloading iso's for it,<br>
> and since its free im going with that since lamo RH doesnt include<br>
> upgrades for free with maint on EL2.1, i dont feel like throwing $$$ at<br>
> "free" software for testing.<br>
> <br>
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