[olug] linux / freebsd as firewire disk?

[Matt Anderson]

I guess what I'm trying to accomplish (or at least establish as  
possible) is this: can one set up a multi-drive, RAID  enclosure  
running Linux or FreeBSD which can be used simply as a firewire disk  
by other operating systems (OS X, Win-whatever, another linux or  
freebsd host, etc).

Ideally, the other OS could format the volume in it's own native file  
system of choice.

The equivalent of rolling your own thing like is mentioned here:

   http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/03/29/iomega.2tb.raid.drive/

On Mar 30, 2007, at 2:33 PM, 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,
>
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>   Matt Anderson
>
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