Re: [NTLK] PC Card Firewire

From: Laurent Daudelin (nemesys_at_cox.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 24 2001 - 01:23:34 EDT

on 10/24/01 1:12 AM, Michael Drabicki at drabicki_at_mac.com wrote:

> Can drivers be made to use a PC Card Firewire card usable with a
> Newt? I'm thinking alternate storage on a portable Firewire hard
> drive for packages...

This is, unfortunately, way too much work to be done. You would first have
to recognize the FireWire card so you would have to write a driver for it.
Then, you would have to implement the FireWire API, which, I must admit, I
haven't looked at, but I imagine fairly large given the number of devices
that you can use. Or, put in another way, once you can recognize the card,
you would have to write a driver for every category of device that implement
that interface.

Paul Guyot has done marvel with his ATA driver, but I don't think a FireWire
interface working on the Newton would be something even remotely possible...

Hey, Paul? Correct me if I'm wrong!

-Laurent. 

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