How to reverse a Firewire bridge ?

External Since: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 2

Hi all,

I'm looking for a FireWire card I want to plug into an ATA connector on
an embedded board without PCI bus.

I want to reduce the size of the box by replacing the internal hard
drive with a firewire interface card.

Is it possible ?

I know that there's a lot of firewire to ata bridges on the wild but I
made a test with one of them without success.

I undoubtedly made some mistake, especially that I'm not sure it's
possible to reverse the bridge use.

Thanks in advance,
--
Philippe

External Since: Jan 03, 2004 Posts: 7693

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 19:05:53 +0100, NulModem RemoveThis @hayes.com
(NulModem) wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for a FireWire card I want to plug into an ATA connector on
>an embedded board without PCI bus.
>
>I want to reduce the size of the box by replacing the internal hard
>drive with a firewire interface card.
>
>Is it possible ?
>
> I know that there's a lot of firewire to ata bridges on the wild but I
>made a test with one of them without success.
>
>I undoubtedly made some mistake, especially that I'm not sure it's
>possible to reverse the bridge use.
>
>Thanks in advance,

It is not possible to reverse it.
ATA interface is not a peer to peer bridge, it is host to
client. You can attach ATA devices (drives), not anything
else that I'm aware of.