Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Strange. I haven't heard of this before. From which vendor and model >> is the device, and do you know which chip is on its IDE bridge board? > > I've seen it, all right. 8 bytes stuck in FIFO, pl3507 IDE bridge, > and judging by google search that turd is b0rken regardless of the > OS (along the lines of "works under Windows if you power-cycle it > once in about half an hour"). > > Suggested fix: use as a barf-bag; the authors of that thing certainly had > done that.
Sounds plausible. I wasn't aware of the particular 8-byte-garbage symptom (or heard of it and forgot it). Some people (regardless if Windows, OS X, or Linux users) were able to make their PL3507 work with new firmware: http://wiki.linux1394.org/FirmwareDownload Very old revisions of the chip don't support firmware upload. And some boards with newer revisions apparently prevent firmware upload with a resistor: http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?p=957178 -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== =--= ==-== http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
