Subject: Re: FireWire SBP-2 disk?
To: None <michael@nosflow.com, port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/31/2003 11:55:22
At 11:04 PM 5/30/2003, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>Any chance of it working?
>
>I just tried a -current kernel and it didn't recognize my hard drive.  I've
>got an IBM Travelstar in a case with an Oxford 911 chipset plugged into a
>PowerBook (FireWire) aka Pismo.  It works fine in OSX and OS9 without any
>special drivers.

Alas, the PISMO FWOHCI is special in that it is big endian, not little
endian like the fwohci driver expects.  And so it doesn't work.  This
could be worked around in numerous ways but most would just slow down
the driver.


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