From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267747AbUHEUTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:19:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267828AbUHEUTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:19:05 -0400 Received: from ihemail1.lucent.com ([192.11.222.161]:1932 "EHLO ihemail1.lucent.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267747AbUHEUTB (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:19:01 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16658.38447.591862.21787@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:18:55 -0400 From: "John Stoffel" To: caleb_gibbs@sbcglobal.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Firewire hard drives In-Reply-To: <200408051612.36445.caleb_gibbs@sbcglobal.net> References: <200408051612.36445.caleb_gibbs@sbcglobal.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.14 under Emacs 20.6.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Caleb> Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard Caleb> drive to mount? my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the Caleb> firewire hub and works great with my usb devices but when I Caleb> plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I can`t mount Caleb> it. I've been having problems too with these devices. I've been trying with a dual interface USB2.0/Firewire box with a Prolific Technology chipset. This is with 2.6.[678]-* kernels of various types. I can do a mkfs under either USB2 or Firewire connections (both ports are on the same Adaptec PCI card) but the firewire sides bombs out much quicker. I've just found some issues with Device Mapper and MD that I wonder might be causing some issues here, but if I use the USB side, I get full system lockups at points which are not fun, while on the Firewire side I get tons of errors and the device (drive and case) just lock up completely. Takes a power cycles and a couple of un-plugs to get it working again under Firewire. I've filed a bug report with the linux-ieee1394 folks, but I haven't had a chance to look into it yet to provide more info if they've requested it. Sorry, not much else to report here, but I'd certainly like to help out. John