On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 22:23, Crossfire wrote: > > AFAIK, it's been used successfully for quite > > some time now, so you would think they would > > make it non experimental. > > Uh, hell no. > > The linux firewire stack is still braindead in parts. > > When I looked at the source for the IEEE1394 OHCI driver in 2.4.18 it > was fundamentally broken (failure to handle certain soft-failure/error > cases with any sort of dignity), and wasn't working with certain SBP2 > devices because of these problems. > > The IEEE1394 CVS snapshot I looked at about a month/month-half ago was > not much better. > > I get the impression that the Lynx driver is better though. > > The support is definately not ready to be called stable for quite some > time yet. >
It might not be up to much under the hood, but I've been using a lot of firewire hardware and it works a treat. External CDRW, DVD, 2 x HDD, all work fine 8+ hours a day. Running 2.4.18 with the CVS snapshot (though worked fine out of the box too - but I needed CVS to get my docking station going). Greeno -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel : +61-(0)2-9500-9996
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