P1394 Mail Archive: P1394> FW: Profile 24. Login

P1394> FW: Profile 24. Login

Hitoshi Sekine (hitoshis@MICROSOFT.com)
Mon, 7 Sep 1998 22:46:09 -0700

> This statement is no longer true in NT5 as long as the device returns
> device_type 2 or 3.
>
> 24 Login
> Microsoft has implemented their SBP-2 driver to do a login on power up and
> not logout until the PC is shut down. Though this is provided for within
> the SBP-2 specification, it requires devices, which may be shared among
> multiple PCs to support multiple logins to a single service, even if the
> different PCs cannot simultaneously use the service.
>
> Can imaging devices (which want to take advantage of the shared nature of
> 1394) tolerate the resource requirements to operate on a multiple
> Microsoft O/S host configuration?
>
Thanks,
Hitoshi