Yep, it's on the list at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/hcl.php which shows lots of hardware folks are using. -----Original Message----- From: Steven Hatfield [mailto:ashari@knightswood.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:45 AM To: Mark W. Knecht Subject: Re: [SLE] FireWire & Linux ? I can attest to the Belkin FireWire PCI card (available at CompUSA) working PERFECTLY with FireWire on Linux. I have a Yamaha CDRW drive that I'm using to rip/burn CDs, and it is awesome. -Steven On Tuesday 03 July 2001 11:38 am, you wrote:

BTW - I forgot to say that if you do want to play with this, make sure you get an OHCI based 1394 controller, preferably using a TI OHCI chip. this is the most tested and most compatible with what the development community is using.

Mark

-----Original Message----- From: Mark W. Knecht [mailto:mknecht@controlnet.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2001 8:08 AM To: 'Linux - User'; suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: RE: [SLE] FireWire & Linux ?

Hi, You'll want to check out http://linux1394.sourceforge.net . This is where everything is managed for 1394 development right now. The project has been for about 2 years and has made a lot of headway, but frankly isn't really ready for prime time right now. (more like after 2AM TV...)

You probably have 1394 support in your SuSE release. I'm not sure. It's been in Redhat since 6.2 I think. However, you'll need to get the CVS database from sourceforge as many issues are getting fixed everyday...

Currently there are a lot of things going on. Linux 1394 can talk to digital camcorders. It is also working with SBP-2 disks, CDs, CD-R drives. (and CD-RW also I think...) This is probably where you're getting 1394 associated with SCSI. SBP-2 is also known as 'Serial SCSI' because the command set is similar, and I believe the 1394 SBP-2 driver is installed to look like a SCSI device to Linux. Check that out.

There are a few simple apps for viewing what's attached to the bus. There is a start to a TCP/IP protocol stack for doing networking across 1394 eliminating the need for Ethernet cards. There's a lot going on.

However...none of it is really ready for day in day out use, so don't get you're hope too high. There are problems with drivers running on Mac platforms, and there are issues right now with whether data written to disk on one platform will be correctly read by other platforms.

If this sounds like something that is fun and doesn't scare you, jump in.

However, be warned......it isn't nearly as advanced as what you might have seem on the Mac or M$ platforms.

With best regards, Mark

-----Original Message----- From: Linux - User [mailto:linux@ods.co.cr] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 7:08 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] FireWire & Linux ?

Hi !!

does any one know if there are drivers for FireWire for Linux yet ? and also it's FireWire a replacement for SCSI ?

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