Oxford Semi 922 (oxfu922)
Lennart Sorensen
lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 13 18:47:26 UTC 2005
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:47:06PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> I can't seem to find any info on whether the Oxford Semi 922
> (oxfu922) IDE->USB2/Firewire800 ASIC is supported in Linux. This is the
> controller used in the Storecase DataSilo DS321. If you don't know
> either way, can you recommend a place to look? I am sure there must be
> notes related to the kernel somewhere but I am not sure how to go about
> looking for this info shy of reading the release notes for each version
> which would be, to say the least, a little unwieldly.
Well given usb-storage and sbp2 are both rather well defined standards
for disks on usb and firewire respiectively, one would hope any sane
company would design their device to those standards rather than having
to supply drives for all sorts of operating systems. In other words
most of those devices just work.
On the other hand I have seen firewire media readers in the past that
did not quite meet the spec as they had designed for "works with win2k
drivers" rather than "works as the standards says it should". It even
tually worked mostly with linux with some driver flags turned on to
ignore certain parts of the standard in ways win2k does.
Lennart Sorensen
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