On 4/23/07, Michael Hannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greetings. One of the profs here wants to attach an external, firewire drive to his linux box, running SL 4.4. I had never used firewire under linux, but I figured it wouldn't be a big deal to get it going. But as I dug into the problem, I discovered it wasn't all that simple.
Firewire has a tendency to eat its children. It works great if you have a good controller and a good set of hardware.. but too much of the hardware out there is dodgy enough to cause corruptions and crashes. And so you end up adding more and more hardware to various 'grey/black' lists that say while it is plugged into a firewire controller.. treat it like a really really broken USB box. One of the issues that came up with the RH 3.x unsupported kernels was that RH kept getting flack from various ISV's that their customers had lost important data from firewire and what was RH going to do about it. [The line that it was in an 'unsupported' kernel didnt go very far.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"
