From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267237AbUBROHh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:07:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267286AbUBROHh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:07:37 -0500 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:27627 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267273AbUBROHf (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 09:07:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:53:00 -0500 From: Ben Collins To: Alexey Goldin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Firewire troubles with SMP kernel Message-ID: <20040218135300.GN957@phunnypharm.org> References: <1075940005.11793.34.camel@hobbit> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1075940005.11793.34.camel@hobbit> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:13:26PM -0800, Alexey Goldin wrote: > Thanks to fine people who helped me to sort out problems with my laptop > couple of months ago. This is the timeto ask for help again :-) > > Please cc: any reply to me as I am not subscribed to the list. > > Well, I know firewire with SMP is a little bit iffy. > However we managed to get it working on one computer and we hoped it > will work with other. Here is what we have instead. > > The first computer is dual Athlon-MP with Tyan mobo, firewire card is > fairly basic, we got it from > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gooddealpc-store/139pci3p.html > We tried it with Western Digital 120GB firewire drives and with IDE > enclosures: I'm running firewire with SMP kernels with no problems. I think the issue is you are using old drivers that may not be working with SMP. Try build the latest drivers from linux1394.org for 2.4. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/