I am pretty sure that Oxford 911 is a family of parts. The current Oxford
Firewire parts are the 934 and 936 families. It appears that the Oxford 911
was commonly used in drive enclosures.
The most troublesome part in my experience is the Initio INIC-1430. It does not
get along with scsa1394
On Jan 28, 2009, at 16:39, Miles Nordin wrote:
> Oxford 911 seems to describe a brand of chips, not a specific chip,
> but it's been a good brand, and it's a very old brand for firewire.
As an added bonus this chipset allow "multiple logins" so it can be
used to experiment with this like Oracle
> "ap" == Alan Perry writes:
ap> the firewire drive that you want to use or, more precisely,
ap> the 1394-to-ATA (or SATA) bridge
for me Oxford 911 worked well, and PL-3507 crashed daily and needed a
reboot of the case to come back. Prolific released new firmware, but
it didn't help
Which firewire card? Any firewire card that is OHCI compliant, which is almost
any add-on firewire card that you would buy new these days.
The bigger question is the firewire drive that you want to use or, more
precisely, the 1394-to-ATA (or SATA) bridge used by the drive. Some work
better th
thanks for all the feedback. i guess i'll stick with usb2.
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Frank Cusack wrote:
> just installed s10_u6 with a root pool. i'm blown away. so now i want
> to attach my external storage via firewire.
I was able to use this cheap thing with good initial results:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124002
However, I ran into a frequent
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 21:01:55 -0600 (CST)
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote:
>
> > what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list
> > any that i could find. i searched for any of the terms 'firewire',
> > '1394', 'ohci', 'uhci', 'ehci'.
>
> The S
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Frank Cusack wrote:
> what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list any that
> i could find. i searched for any of the terms 'firewire', '1394', 'ohci',
> 'uhci', 'ehci'.
The Sun Ultra-40 (recently discontinued) comes with dual 400Mbit
firefire ports. Se
just installed s10_u6 with a root pool. i'm blown away. so now i want
to attach my external storage via firewire. i could use usb2 but i prefer
firewire as i won't need an external hub.
what firewire cards are supported for x86? the HCL doesn't list any that
i could find. i searched for any o
