Re: Firewire and AIX

From: Robert Miller (rmiller_at_SMUD.ORG)
Date: 10/28/04

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    Date:         Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:56:33 -0700
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    My gut instinct says it's not a real high possibility that AIX will grok firewire... especially since I haven't seen any of their machines have onboard USB ports.

    Granted, I haven't looked at their adapter cards, but I have a suspicion there's no IBM adapter card for firewire, and probably not for USB... and if there's not I seriously doubt they'd support a 3rd party card. And if they don't support the 3rd party cards, there's no drivers written, which will mean there's no way for it to work - unless someone out there has written a driver for a specific card, which will probably be for a particular OS level.

    It's certainly possible that I'm wrong on this... but I have a hunch I might not be ;)

    --rm

    -----Original Message-----
    From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
    Marc Taylor
    Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:34 AM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: Firewire and AIX

    Good morning,

    I was wondering if one could put in a firewire card in an AIX box (say an
    F50)? Would AIX know how to talk to any connected devices? Has anyone
    tried this?

    Just curious.

    Marc Taylor
    Champaign, IL

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