OT - Firewire drive recommendation?

[Kenneth Porter]

--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.