Re: Will my 1394b card work?

AndyLiebman@aol.com wrote:
> Sorry if this is a duplicate message. I don't know if the other message was
> sent or not.

It was, but no big deal getting it twice.

>
> I just purchased an "evaluation version" of a new 1394b card that's about to
> come onto the market. The card, made by Indigita, provides four separate
> channels (not connectors, 4 separate host adapters) of 1394b on a 133Mhz/64 bit
> PCI-X card. The card is specifically meant to be used in software RAID
> applications.
>
> To my knowledge, no extra drivers are required to use this card in Windows or
> Mac OS. I think those operating systems just recognize the card as four 1394b
> host adapters (on one card).
>
> Does anybody have a sense whether this card should work in Linux under either
> the 2.4.22+ kernels or the 2.6.2+ kernels? I plan to try installing it under
> the 2.6.3 kernel this weekend.

My 'sense' is that it will be recognized. My 'sense' is that you'll see
it as 4 separate controllers. I have no idea whether disk drives on each
interface will work for you. You'll just have to try. I believe Ben
Collins has a 1394b card using (maybe) a TI controller and posted that
there was life, but I don't remember any great amount of discussion
about it.

My understanding of apps like gscanbus is that you'll only be able to
see one bus. I'm having that problem right now with 2 1394a controllers
in a single box.

>
> Thanks for the advice.
>

Not advice...just information. Take it with a grain of salt. I still
cannot get recent 1394 to do anything at all on my Gentoo box. It
troubles me that I'm having so many problems with a 2.4.22 kernel.

Good luck,
Mark

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Received on Fri Feb 20 20:25:28 2004