[Soekris] net5501 connectivity

[Matt Simerson]

> From: Martin Johnson <martin at martinshouse.com>
>
> On 18 Mar 2007, at 11:37, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> J6 is the sata port
>
> It would be great to have an eSata port fitted to the Soekris case.
> The 5501 would make a nice low-power file server with an external
> eSATA HDD or RAID.
>
> I guess USB2 could also be used for this, but I just wonder about
> speed, and stability under FreeBSD.

USB currently works just fine on FreeBSD for most any purpose,  
including an external disk enclosure. However, it's too slow to be  
very useful for anything.  I'm quite curious to see how well the USB2  
port on the 5501 performs. I've got a dual disk external drive  
enclosure with two SATA disks and firewire 400, 800, and USB 2.0  
ports on it.

It's designed for 24x7 operation, so it's got fans in each hot-swap  
drive tray as well as a fan for the unit. Which means it's loud. I'd  
love to stick it in the closet with my Soekris but the USB port is  
far too slow. I also tried sharing it via Airdisk with Apple's new  
Airport 802.11n base station (and USB 2.0) which runs NetBSD. I found  
that too to be quite slow:  http://www.tnpi.net/wiki/ 
Aiport_Extreme_802.11n

So for now it sits on my desk, connected via FireWire 800 which  
performs very well. But when the 5501 arrives, you can be sure I'll  
be attaching it again to see how well that works.

Matt

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