Re: Recommended 1394 chipsets?

On 5 Jun, Alan Shieh wrote:
> What are the general recommendations on adapters (i.e. vendors) and
> chipsets?

All OHCI and PCILynx chips work. There are just some motherboards
-- many laptops actually -- and some combo cards (e.g.
audio/1394, USB/1394) that do not work currently under Linux. The
exact reason is often not known.

> Would I have any reason to buy a CardBus adapter to replace/augment my
> built-in TSB43AB21 PHY/Link?

I could not think of one, except for a bad laptop motherboard
without 1394 support but with CardBus support...

> Which host adapters / IDE<=>1394 bridges provide support for SBP-2?

All. The host adapter is actually not aware of a high-level
protocol like SBP2.

> I'm also curious as to user experiences with:
> ** 1394+SBP-2 tunneling over iSCSI, with iSCSI<=>IDE translator.
> ** eth1394 + md over nbd (or enbd)
> ** eth1394 + libpcap (i.e., does it work)
> ** eth1394 + WinXP
> ** 1394 iperf numbers, throughput and cpu utilization
> ** are there any 1394 hardware switching crossbars?

I have no idea.

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Stefan Richter
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