Re: uhci and Plextor 708UF

--- Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 14 Jan, Richard Molen wrote:
> > 2. sbp-2 dependencies mention ohci, but not uhci. My mainboard
> uses
> > uhci (via chipset), will I need a (ohci or pcilynx) firewire
> card
> > or are there other options?
>
> The sbp2 driver is only dependent on the ieee1394 and the
> scsi_mod drivers, nothing else. However in order to use a SBP-2
> (or any other protocol) over an actual 1394 bus, a driver for the
> bus adapter is also needed. That would be the ohci1394 driver or
> the pcilynx driver.
>
> The ohci1394 driver has nothing to do with the usb-ohci and
> usb-uhci drivers. And there is no UHCI type of IEEE 1394
> adapters.
>
> IEEE 1394 bus adapters made by VIA are OHCI compliant. One of
> my PCs has a VIA KM266 based motherboard with VIA VT6306 OHCI
> adapter and it works very well with Linux 2.4.

Stefan,

It looks like my Via chipset-based motherboards should not be a
hinderance with firewire on a 2.4.x kernel at least.

Thank you for your help,

Richard Molen

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> Stefan Richter
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