There seem to be two schools of thought on how supported firewire is for Linux... here's a quote from the Linux Parallel Processing HOWTO (Clusters of Linux Systems, Feb 2000): <quote>FireWire (IEEE 1394) Linux support: no Maximum bandwidth: 196.608 Mb/s (soon, 393.216 Mb/s) Minimum latency: ? Available as: multiple-vendor hardware Interface port/bus used: PCI Network structure: random without cycles (self-configuring)</quote> And *here* is a quote from a message on the linux-kernel mailing list: (as of a few days ago) <quote>Well, there's already firewire support in general... It would definitely be a block device, since Firewire is basically the next SCSI (large nubers of devices peer-to-peer (i.e. chained and hubless) architecture, fast communications) witht he major improvements of speed, connector size and hot-swappability. Is the firewire driver not backported to 2.2? It's definitely in 2.3/2.4 series.</quote> Not sure which one to trust... Sounds a bit odd for there to be no support whatsoever, as I'm *sure* I've met people who use Firewire under Linux... try checking out the options on the 2.4 kernel series, and seeing how its handled.. apart from that, I couldn't dig up much else. Kim Shepherd Bored Fulltime Student uonz@xtra.co.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Workman <pwork@contact.net.nz> To: <nzlug@linux.net.nz> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 5:03 PM Subject: [nzlug] Firewire > Hi > can anyone point me in the right direction for information on firewire > & linux. > I am looking for large fast (about 10G for a start) removeable offsite > backup storeage and would like to to use ide-firewire,hard drives > are cheap and you can buy just the firewire drivebays (use own > drive/s) > > or is there a better way ?? > Phil Workman > phil@kiwisim.co.nz > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz > with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. > ------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, email nzlug-request@linux.net.nz with "unsubscribe" in the body of the message.
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