OT - Firewire drive recommendation?

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:26, Thomas Cameron wrote:

> I know zero about firewire - I've never used it or even touched it.
> 
> I have read that you can set up clustering on an external firewire drive
> connected to two Linux machines.  What I don't know is how to do it - I
> know nothing about firewire, historically being a USB user.  This is *not*
> for a production environment - it is for my own education at home.
> 
> What hardware do I need to use to let a single external firewire disk be
> accessed by two Linux servers at the same time?  I figure I need the
> external enclosure, a firewire card for each server, and some sort of a
> firewire hub (if there is such a thing).  Am I on the right track?
> 
> Anyone done this and had any experiences good or bad?

I haven't done it, although I have some not-very-good experience
with trying to run software RAID1 between an internal IDE drive
and and external firewire, but this article might be what you
want:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac10g.html

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  Les Mikesell
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