At 01:55 PM 10/14/99 , you wrote:

>In message <x7aeplsm8o.fsf@dailyplanet.wsrcc.com>,
>Wolfgang Rupprecht writes:
>
> >The Sony 505tx vaio that I have has a losing "ilink" port hardwired to
> >irq9.  The worst part is you can't even turn off this proprietary
> >piece of junk in the sony bios.
>
>Hey, firewire would be nice, if we had a driver for it. :-)

It's one of my long term projects.  I have all the documentation 
and hardware.  I just need the time.  FireWire and SBP-2 (Serial Bus
Protocol #2 -- needed for SCSI over FireWire) is a lot of code.
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