Re: Firewire Disks. (fwd)

From: Andre Bonin (kernel@bonin.ca)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 13:59:16 EST


Roberto Nibali wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I know there is support for "firewire" in the kernel. Is there
>> support for "firewire" disks? If so, how do I enable it?
>
>
> Yes, there is and it is attached to the SCSI layer via the sbp2 driver.
> You need following set of modules to get it working:
>
> scsi_mod, sd_mod, ohci1394, raw1394, ieee1394, sbp2

A lot of caddies that wrap hd's have started coming out and, as you may
know, USB 2.0 supports 480mbps x-fer rate (ideal). So it's pretty
intreguing.

Does the SCSI layer via sbp2 provide functionality for USB 2.0 (EHCI)
disks?

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