"Tuomas Kuosmanen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dont have any firewire devices, but using Ben's kernel tree > (linux-2.4-benh) from 2 weeks ago, version being 2.4.5-pre3, I get > the module inserted ok, and it seems to recognize the thing. However > I dont currently have any firewire devices. I am planning to buy a > FW harddisk though, so I can volunteer as a guinea pig in the near > future. Any recommendations on which ones should work on Linux?
Yes. Look at linux1394.sourceforge.net. They have a recommendations page. Unless you've got an x86 box, I wouldn't run out and buy things just yet. The code to get firewire working on big-endian systems isn't even in CVS yet. jas.