On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 13:29:22 -0000 (UTC), mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) wrote:
> Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ? I use it on occasion and when I do it's with mass storage (hard disk, CD/DVD-RW drive). Mostly on i386, some amd64, and occasionally on macppc (how ironic!). I think the last time I needed to use this setup was under NetBSD-7. In the i386 case, an IBM Thinkpad A31p which has fwohci built in and an IBM ThinkCenter with a FireWire card installed. In each case, the machine's interal disk is just barely big enough for the OS and a few select packages, so I used the firewire disk for source trees, build space and the like. Also had the DVD-RW drive daisy chained from the hard disk on each (internal optical drive CD-RW only). Never had a problem with it. I assume the sparc host is PCI based (an SBUS 1394 card would be neat). I have some Ultra 5s I could put a FireWire card in but they are in not-easily-accessible storage. (Nevermind scratching out workspace to set one up.) I can dig out my firewire enclosures and try them on netbsd-9/amd64, -current/amd64, and -current/macppc. Possibly also netbsd-9/i386 and -current/i386 as they require less digging and scratching to set up and test. I've heard of some 1394 peripheral interface ICs being finicky... -- |/"\ John D. Baker, KN5UKS NetBSD Darwin/MacOS X |\ / jdbaker[snail]consolidated[flyspeck]net OpenBSD FreeBSD | X No HTML/proprietary data in email. BSD just sits there and works! |/ \ GPGkeyID: D703 4A7E 479F 63F8 D3F4 BD99 9572 8F23 E4AD 1645