[KLUG Members] Firewire 1TB drive under Linux worth trying?

[Bruce Smith]

> > I also read on the http://www.linux1394.org homepage that some people
> > have used FireWire 800 (1394b) hard drives under Linux.
> >
> > Does anyone here have any experience with FireWire drives under Linux?
> > Are they safe for regular use under Linux?
> 
> Yes and yes.  :^)

I have an external firewire hard drive that I occasionally use to backup
my laptop.  It worked fine in Redhat 9 (and possibly older RH versions).
When I switched from Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 1, the firewire drive quit
working.  That was part of my incentive to switch from Fedora to SuSE 9.

It may be fixed in Fedora updates by now, since I had the problem back
when FC1 first came out and I haven't tried it on Fedora since. (YMMV)

 - BS