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RE: What cable is needed?

[Mark K. <mk...@co...>]

Physically it really is that simple. Just plug it in.

Application wise and driver wise it can be a bit more difficult, but that
will get better.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Jurgen Kramer [mailto:GTM...@in...]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 8:54 AM
To: Andreas Micklei
Cc: linux1394-devel
Subject: Re: What cable is needed?


Is it really that simple? I could image the firewire bus is just like a SCSI
bus only serial. I really have to find some more info on how it old works.
Any links?

Thanks,

Jurgen

Andreas Micklei wrote:

> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 05:38:51PM +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> > I want to connect my two Linux machines together via the firewire bus
but
> > I'm not sure which cable I need. I guess a standard cable wont work? Do
I
> > need to buy a firewire hub?
>
> A standard cable will work. All devices on the IEEE1394 bus are equal. You
> only need a hub when you run out of ports.
>
> > I cant wait to start working on some SPB-2 implemantation...
>
> Just go ahead. :-)
>
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Re: What cable is needed?

[Daniel K. <dan...@st...>]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> Is it really that simple? I could image the firewire bus is just like a SCSI
> bus only serial. I really have to find some more info on how it old works.
> Any links?

I found some of the old Intel docs and presentations to be quite
informative, ftp://ftp.austin.ibm.com/pub/chrptech/1394ohci/, especially
1394ovw.PDF. More rather technical info on specific topics is on
http://developer.intel.com/technology/1394/ and
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/xpapers/pc98/08fire98.htm (Btw. the
microsoft site has the only semi-sane CSR description I could get hold
of. Short of the $100 IEC/ISO specs that is.) Andreas, maybe some of those
links could be mentioned on the linux1394 homepage?

Daniel.

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RE: What cable is needed?

[Arne S. <ar...@sc...>]

Feel free to enter the links in my link list :

http://www.schirmacher.de/cgi-bin/dclinks.cgi

There is also a technical documentation section.

Arne

-----Original Message-----
From:	Daniel Kobras [SMTP:dan...@st...]
Sent:	Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:56 PM
To:	linux1394-devel
Subject:	Re: What cable is needed?

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Jurgen Kramer wrote:

> Is it really that simple? I could image the firewire bus is just like a SCSI
> bus only serial. I really have to find some more info on how it old works.
> Any links?

I found some of the old Intel docs and presentations to be quite
informative, ftp://ftp.austin.ibm.com/pub/chrptech/1394ohci/, especially
1394ovw.PDF. More rather technical info on specific topics is on
http://developer.intel.com/technology/1394/ and
http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/xpapers/pc98/08fire98.htm (Btw. the
microsoft site has the only semi-sane CSR description I could get hold
of. Short of the $100 IEC/ISO specs that is.) Andreas, maybe some of those
links could be mentioned on the linux1394 homepage?

Daniel.

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