connecting FreeBSD 7 to a DVD-recorder on FW

[Zahemszky Gábor]

Hi!

I've got some DV files (grabbed from a Pana-camera, with iMovie - from
iLife - on a Mac). In my laptop I have an PCMCIA based FW-card, so
I'd like to transfer these files to my DVD-recorder's disk, which has
DV-IN connector on it. I connected my machine with a DV-cable to my
recorder, set up the recorder to use the DV connector as a source, and
tried the "fwcontrol -S myfile.dv" command. fwcontrol printed numbers
1234... and so on, and after about a minute, (it was the length of the
DV-file) it stopped. But the dvd-recorder didn't see any data on the
DV-IN line.
So after it, I tried fwcontrol -r, fwcontrol -t, tried to ask the
configuration with -c 0, -c 1, but it wasn't good. So some questions:

- what does the information mean in an "fwcontrol -t" output? Eg, like
  this one in the laptop:

nothing plugged in it:

crc_len: 3 generation:3 node_count:1 sid_count:1
id link gap_cnt speed delay cIRM power port0 port1 port2 ini more
00    1       5  S400     0    1   -1W     -     -         1    0

plugged the cable into one of the ports:
crc_len: 4 generation:9 node_count:2 sid_count:2
id link gap_cnt speed delay cIRM power port0 port1 port2 ini more
00    1       5  S100     0    1    0W     -     P         0    0
01    1       5  S400     0    1   -1W     -     C         1    0

When I plugged the cable on the other connector of my FW-card, the C
went from port1 to port0:

crc_len: 4 generation:14 node_count:2 sid_count:2
id link gap_cnt speed delay cIRM power port0 port1 port2 ini more
00    1       5  S100     0    1    0W     -     P         0    0
01    1       5  S400     0    1   -1W     C     -         1    0

And this one is from my other machine, with a  built-in FW-controller,
with only one connector, and without a cable plugged in it:

crc_len: 3 generation:2 node_count:1 sid_count:1
id link gap_cnt speed delay cIRM power port0 port1 port2 ini more
00    1       5  S400     0    1   -1W     -     -         1    0

So what do these pieces of information mean?

What are node names - I need them to the -c or -d, or to some other
options? Where can I see them?

How can I know, that my machine sees the DVD-recorder on the link, or
what can I do, if it doesn't see?

Thanks,

Gábor < Gabor at Zahemszky dot HU >

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