Macs aren't the only ones: http://oss.oracle.com/projects/endpoint/
Though that GPL'd effort has been untouched for several years, it at least shows that others have found it worth working on. I think it'd be spiffy to have this capability, not least because 1394's use of DMA on the initiator leads to lower overhead, compared to (most?) network protocols. > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Dan Maslowski > <[email protected]> wrote: > It's perfectly possible for Firewire--all recent Macs > with Firewire > can boot into FW target mode, where they export their > drives over FW. > I don't believe they're using anything special, > chipset-wise--it's > just a bit of embedded software. Personally, I'd > *love* to have a > Firewire target in Solaris. It'd be great to be able > to carve off a > slice of my big zpool and use it for temporary > *bootable* block > storage with my Macs, all for the cost of a $20 PCI > FW card. > > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > storage-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-d > iscuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
