Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:51:10 +0900 From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp> To: jesse@wingnet.net Cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE, 4 pin laptop firewire ports, and 6 pin firewire hard disk drives Message-ID: <87r7vj2c0x.wl@tora.nunu.org> In-Reply-To: <c3ph75$9ii$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <c3i354$q38$1@sea.gmane.org> <87u10itsoo.wl@tora.nunu.org> <c3ph75$9ii$1@sea.gmane.org>
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At Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:22:29 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > > > I think you understand correctly and assume your hub has some problem for > > providing bus power. Connect G4 powerbook, thinkpad and 2.5" HDD to > > the hub at the same time and see what happens. > > I did that. Nothing happened. I even unmounted the drive from the powerbook. Does the laptop recognize powerbook/hub/hdd? The output of 'fwcontrol -t' should help. Another possibility is cable problem. Did you try with several 4pin-6pin cables? > I'm about to give up on the 4 pin firewire port that comes with my laptop. > So, I guess at this point I have these questions: > > 1.) Has ANYONE on this list actually gotten a firewire hdd (or cd-rom/dvd-rom, > I suppose) to work with a 4 pin firewire port? If so, what hardware did > you use? I believe many people(including me) use SBP-2 device with 4-pin port. > 2.) Does anyone know of a 6 pin firewire cardbus card that works well with > FreeBSD? Though there might be some problem with cardbus bridge, most of the card should work with FreeBSD as far as it's based on OHCI. /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html
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