Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:46:02 +0900 From: mistral@imasy.or.jp (Yoshihiko SARUMARU) To: drew@mykitchentable.net Cc: ragnar@sysabend.org, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewire. Message-ID: <021105144602.M0170526@mistral.imasy.or.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:36:15 -0800". <00f901c2844a$34664880$6e2a6ba5@tagalong>
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Hello, you wrote: > > > 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? My laptop (Sony VAIO Z505VR/K) can drive DVD-RAM drive and HDD unit via FireWire. Off cource I can play DVD Video with it too. Hot plugging with my laptop had been not working , but simokawa san fixed it (take more long DELAY) with just my laptop yesterday :) I think this fix will be commited to CVS repo. soon. | fwohci0@pci0:8:0: class=0x0c0010 card=0x8080104d chip=0x8039104d rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 | vendor = 'Sony Corporation' | device = 'CXD3222 OHCI i.LINK (IEEE 1394) PCI Host Ctrlr' | class = serial bus | subclass = FireWire Yes, it works very well. You only have to kldload modules (firewire and sbp). Regerds, -- Yoshihiko SARUMARU mail: mistral@imasy.or.jp web: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~mistral/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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