[olug] linux / freebsd as firewire disk?

[Hurley Rod]

Ok, so you are saying you can't run a crossover cable using Ethernet.
Never tried to connect 2 computers with USB, always had some sort of
serial or Ethernet available.  


-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Carl Lundstedt
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:48 PM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] linux / freebsd as firewire disk?

After reading your response my question would then be, how do I share a
drive via firewire (or USB) rather than via ethernet?

Carl
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 14:33 -0500, Hurley Rod wrote:
> Isn't that what drive sharing accomplishes?  Share out the drive(s)
and
> the pc B doesn't care what's on pc A, just that it can see the shares.
> Depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf
Of
> Matt Anderson
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:29 PM
> To: Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: [olug] linux / freebsd as firewire disk?
> 
> Is there any project / method to make a computer running linux or a  
> freebsd behave as if it were a firewire (or usb) disk?  Meaning that  
> you could run a firewire cable to another computer and that other  
> computer would believe that the linux/freebsd host was in fact a  
> firewire drive and not a computer.
> 
> This would be analogous to the way that a Mac can be put into 'target

> disk mode' and pretend to be a firewire disk, but ideally with the  
> operating system (linux/freebsd) actually running.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --
>   Matt Anderson
> 
> 
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