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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."

3 of 34 comments (clear)

  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.

  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.

  3. Video Tape Backup Howto by Groganz · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Point your video camera at screen
    2. cat /dev/ad0s1a