OT - Firewire drive recommendation?

[Thomas Cameron]

> --On Tuesday, August 30, 2005 2:26 PM -0500 Thomas Cameron
> <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I don't know the answer, but you could check the archives here:
>
> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux1394-devel>
>
> Note that this is a kernel developers list, but the people there may be
> able to point you at a better place for an answer.

Thanks for the resource!

Thomas