On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, David Riley wrote:
> "Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Has anybody written a driver for the Western Digital (or similar)
> > PCI / Firewire adapter?
> >
> > If not, I'm going to have to write one. If it doesn't exist yet, should
> > the device be a block device or a character device? There are some new
> > very-fast disks that now use Firewire so this would seem to imply that
> > the most "logically-correct" interface would be a block device. However,
> > it's also used for cameras, scanners, printers, etc. Maybe there should
> > be a 'firewire core' with some generic devices built around it.
>
> Well, there's already firewire support in general... It would
> definitely be a block device, since Firewire is basically the next SCSI
> (large nubers of devices peer-to-peer (i.e. chained and hubless)
> architecture, fast communications) witht he major improvements of speed,
> connector size and hot-swappability. Is the firewire driver not
> backported to 2.2? It's definitely in 2.3/2.4 series.
>
It's not in 2.2.17. I will get the 'current' development kernel and
probably back-port it.
I gave up trying to use the development kernel because every two weeks
I would have to rewrite my 12 drivers. Also, the last time I checked
both the loop-device and the RAM Disk (both of which I need in my
embedded system) were broken beyond simple fixes.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.2.17 on an i686 machine (801.18 BogoMips).
"Memory is like gasoline. You use it up when you are running. Of
course you get it all back when you reboot..."; Actual explanation
obtained from the Micro$oft help desk.
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