Hi Timo, On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:43, Timo Boettcher wrote: > Hi Joe, > > * Joe Stone, Wednesday, December 3, 2003, 2:12:12 PM: > > I use a 2.6 test kernel, they have much better firewire-support than 2.4. > > Could you tell us some details about this? > > Timo
Do you want reasons why I think 2.6 has better firewire-support than 2.4? I don't know internals, but: I have a Tyan Tiger MPX and an old adaptec 2940 and this compo is instable. If I use rescan-scsi-bus.sh twice (once to get the dev, second to remove the device), my system freeze. Not very usable for me. (I never tried the procfs add-single-device, remove-single-device solution mentioned in www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html) I'm not interested in rescaning scsi only to get the firewire work. With 2.6 I don't need to rescan, so I think, the support is better. I have no problem with 2.6, so I switched from 2.4 and everything works fine. This was simpiler than performing a patch to my kernel or rescan scsi. As http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html says: "Currently, the SCSI subsystem in 2.4 kernels does not support per-device hotplug." And I need hotplug with my external firewire hd. Which kernel do you use? joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
