Re: Will my 1394b card work?

From: Stefan Richter <stefanr_at_s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date: Sun 22 Feb 2004 - 19:15:55 CET
Message-Id: <200402221813.i1MIDHWR017541@einhorn.in-berlin.de>

On 20 Feb, AndyLiebman@aol.com wrote:
> 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. [...]
> 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 do not have experience with either multiple host adapters nor
1394b adpaters. However I read numerous times that multiple host
adpaters work under Linux, and I think S800 works too. If you
don't succeed under 2.6, give 2.4 a try. It is still more stable
WRT IEEE 1394.

As Mark mentioned, gscanbus ignores any other than the 1st bus.
This is a limitation of gscanbus that could be removed quite
easily. Furthermore, gscanbus is not yet aware of S800.

Other 1394 apps let you select a bus by parameters or maybe
throug a GUI. The sbp2 driver should work with devices on more
than one buses transparently without special prerequisites.

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