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Date:      Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:36:15 -0800
From:      "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To:        "Jamie Bowden" <ragnar@sysabend.org>
Cc:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Firewire.
Message-ID:  <00f901c2844a$34664880$6e2a6ba5@tagalong>
References:  <20021104132914.U2225-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Bowden" <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 1:30 PM
Subject: Re: Firewire.


> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org>
> > To: "Jamie Bowden" <ragnar@sysabend.org>
> > Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:30 AM
> > Subject: Re: Firewire.
> >
> >
> > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 10:25, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Great job guys!
> > > >
> > > > From the dmesg:
> > > >
> > > > fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem
> > > > 0xf8ff8000-0xf8ffbfff,0xf8ffc
> > > > 000-0xf8ffc7ff irq 10 at device 15.2 on pci2
> > > > fwohci0: PCI bus latency was changing to 250.
> > > > cache size 8.
> > > > fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1)
> > > > fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
> > > > fwohci0: resetting OHCI...done (0)
> > > > fwohci0: BUS_OPT 0xa002 -> 0xf800a002
> > > > fwohci0: Link 1394a available S400, 1 ports, maxrec 2048 bytes.
> > > > fwohci0: Enable 1394a Enhancements
> > > > fwohci0: EUI64 42:4f:c0:00:14:8b:94:21
> > > > fwochi_set_intr: 1
> > > > firewire0: <IEEE1394(Firewire) bus> on fwohci0
> > > > firewire0: firewire bus attach
> > > > ...
> > > > firewire0: BUS reset
> > > > firewire0: node_id = 0xc000ffc0, CYCLEMASTER mode
> > > > firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
> > > > fw_set_bus_manager: 63->0 (loop=0)
> > > > send phy_config root_node=-1 gap_count=1
> > > > start AT DMA status=0
> > > >
> > > > I have no idea if the last part is normal or not...just having
it
> > > > recognized and the driver successfully attached is cool.
> >
> > I had made a post to -questions last week asking if FBSD supported
> > Firewire as I didn't see any mention of it in the 4.7 Release Notes.
I
> > didn't get a definitive response.
> >
> > Now I see your post and it leads me to believe that FireWire is
> > supported.  Is this true or did you have to modify your system in
some
> > way to get support?
> >
> > I've had my eye on an external FireWire IDE drive enclosure I'd like
to
> > add to my system to increase storage capacity.  Do you have any
comments
> > on how this would work?
>
> You have to track -STABLE for this.  It was added fairly recently
> (yesterday maybe?).

Thank you for your quick response.  Have you had a chance to try it out
yet?  Does it seem to work well?

Thanks,

Drew


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