Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 22:38:36 -0600 From: Timothy Covell <timothy.covell@ashavan.org> To: John Kozubik <john@kozubik.com>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: periodic firewire max-out question Message-ID: <200203050435.g254ZIv08459@home.ashavan.org.> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203041906220.93454-100000@www> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203041906220.93454-100000@www>
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On Monday 04 March 2002 21:07, John Kozubik wrote: > I do not currently use firewire with FreeBSD. There is not, to my > knowledge, a mature driver available. In fact, there really isn't even an > immature driver... > > If you search on freshmeat.net, I think you will find some projects for > linux drivers ... perhaps on sourceforge as well. Linux may not even have > mature firewire drivers yet. > > ----- > John Kozubik - john@ozubik.com - http://www.kozubik.com > Linux 2.4.x does have OK Firewire drivers. I've used it for external disk/CD-Rom drives with the SBP-2 protocol. It known to work also with digital cameras. The only problems so far that I've seen are: 0. Usually have to rmmod sbp2 and insmod spb2 to get newly attached devices recognized. That much said, it does automatically "deregister" devices. 1. Using SBP-2 to a cdrom burner and cdrecord caused a kernel panic. 2. Trying to use the IP encapsulation (3rd party driver) mode caused a panic as well. 3. Trying to connect two boxes to the same device, something which is NOT part of the normal Firewire spec, caused two kernel panics. Otherwise, for normal usage, it is OK. -- timothy.covell@ashavan.org. Unix Systems Administrator To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message
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