1394 connection a-la SCSI

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Hi!

If it’s not possible to connect machines running NT/2K with SCSI bus and
write a SCSI miniport to support that connection, so maybe it’s possible
to connect machines with 1394? Is this possible? I mean physically and
at software level both?

Regards,
Anton

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Yes we can connect PCs using 1394. This is detailed in the specification ‘ip
over 1394’
However the present MS implementation of 1394 for Win2K doesn’t support
‘ip over 1394’.
Their are some third party implementations, but I don’t know if any of them
are 100% spec compliant.
The spec ’ ip over 1394’ requires hardware to be 1394a complaint.

Regards
Jeseem

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> If it’s not possible to connect machines running NT/2K with SCSI bus and
> write a SCSI miniport to support that connection, so maybe it’s possible
> to connect machines with 1394? Is this possible? I mean physically and
> at software level both?
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I have done this using a fibrechannel SCSI controller such as the
ISP2100/2200 from QLogic. I currently have a peer to peer communications
driver and a SCSI driver running simultaneously. They use a proprietary
interface to a lower level driver that loads during boot, before SCSIPort,
and controls our hardware.

Gary
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Hi!

If it’s not possible to connect machines running NT/2K with
SCSI bus and
write a SCSI miniport to support that connection, so maybe
it’s possible
to connect machines with 1394? Is this possible? I mean
physically and
at software level both?

Regards,
Anton

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> write a SCSI miniport to support that connection, so maybe it’s possible

to connect machines with 1394? Is this possible? I mean physically and
at software level both?

Surely, there are IP over 1394 implementations - AFAIK even one produced by
MS.
Also I’ve heard that there is an open standard of running IP over 1394.

Max

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> The spec ’ ip over 1394’ requires hardware to be 1394a complaint.

Yes.
1394a introduced async broadcasts -> necessary to implement ARP -> necessary
to implement IP.

Max