From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267961AbUHEUkz (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:40:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267953AbUHEUha (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:37:30 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:25251 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267829AbUHEUgn (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Aug 2004 16:36:43 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Firewire hard drives Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 22:36:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200408051612.36445.caleb_gibbs@sbcglobal.net> <16658.38447.591862.21787@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 161.80-203-29.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aTAh7smru98hV6g5REnFbHgLOY0= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "John Stoffel" writes: > 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. Try giving the sbp2 module the option serialize_io=1. It helped get my firewire case running. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se