From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:20:24 +0000 Subject: Re: netdevice problem - 1394 SPB-2 Drives Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:03:18AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm a total 'lurker' here, but am involved on the hardware side with the > work going on with Linux-1394 support. > > How do you guys seeing 1394 disk drives fitting into the hot-plug mix? > The performance is much higher than USB, similar maybe to SCSI, but as of > right now I do not believe that it will be possible to boot from a 1394 > drive, so the file system problems may not be a bad as SCSI. I'm starting to experiment with booting a Linux install from a USB CDROM drive, and look like I have things almost working. But the biggest problem (and one that you will probably have) is that you need BIOS support to boot from the device. Do any BIOSs support bootable 1394 devices, like hard drives? If not, I don't think that it will ever work, but would be glad to be proven wrong. thanks, greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel