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Firewire Updates For Scheduled FreeBSD 4.8 Release

Posted by timothy on from the making-movies-and-more dept.

Dan writes "Hidetoshi Shimokawa has added new functionality to Firewire scheduled for FreeBSD 4.8 release. New features include built-in DV support, improved recovery process & timeout stability and Write/ioctl support for /dev/fwmem0. He has not tested this on PAL and is looking for volunteers."

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  1. Dump without tape! by noctrnl9 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think this is going to be great for dump/restore backups. not to mention the potential to dump raw DV footage from the source to a portable drive while in to field. Then there is the fact that 100MB/s (1394b) & 400MB/s (1394(?)) is just a question of time.

    1. Re:Dump without tape! by essdodson · · Score: 2, Interesting

      I don't know if you were implying it or not, but it seems some folks have figured out how to use a DV camcorder to store data. :)

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      scott
    2. Re:Dump without tape! by drinkypoo · · Score: 2, Interesting
      That doesn't sound very hard. I'd think one could pretty much wrap the data up so it would look like the proper type of MPEG frames and spit out as you would any other DV stream.

      Anyone have a link to someone who's done this? How much capacity is there on a DV tape?

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  2. Re:fp. and last post, because *BSD is dying! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    "1400 NetBSD users"

    We are 5000 students in our school using NetBSD..
    We also use Solaris/Sparc and OSF1/Alpha (Digital Unix) but all the workstations are on NetBSD.