On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Larry Rosenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Jamie Bowden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Firewire.
>
>
> > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 10:25, Jamie Bowden wrote:
> > >
> > > Great job guys!
> > >
> > > From the dmesg:
> > >
> > > fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem
> > > 0xf8ff8000-0xf8ffbfff,0xf8ffc
> > > 000-0xf8ffc7ff irq 10 at device 15.2 on pci2
> > > fwohci0: PCI bus latency was changing to 250.
> > > cache size 8.
> > > fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1)
> > > fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 4.
> > > fwohci0: resetting OHCI...done (0)
> > > fwohci0: BUS_OPT 0xa002 -> 0xf800a002
> > > fwohci0: Link 1394a available S400, 1 ports, maxrec 2048 bytes.
> > > fwohci0: Enable 1394a Enhancements
> > > fwohci0: EUI64 42:4f:c0:00:14:8b:94:21
> > > fwochi_set_intr: 1
> > > firewire0: <IEEE1394(Firewire) bus> on fwohci0
> > > firewire0: firewire bus attach
> > > ...
> > > firewire0: BUS reset
> > > firewire0: node_id = 0xc000ffc0, CYCLEMASTER mode
> > > firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
> > > fw_set_bus_manager: 63->0 (loop=0)
> > > send phy_config root_node=-1 gap_count=1
> > > start AT DMA status=0
> > >
> > > I have no idea if the last part is normal or not...just having it
> > > recognized and the driver successfully attached is cool.
>
> I had made a post to -questions last week asking if FBSD supported
> Firewire as I didn't see any mention of it in the 4.7 Release Notes.  I
> didn't get a definitive response.
>
> Now I see your post and it leads me to believe that FireWire is
> supported.  Is this true or did you have to modify your system in some
> way to get support?
>
> I've had my eye on an external FireWire IDE drive enclosure I'd like to
> add to my system to increase storage capacity.  Do you have any comments
> on how this would work?

You have to track -STABLE for this.  It was added fairly recently
(yesterday maybe?).

Jamie Bowden

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