sorry for the delayed response -- Unfortunately the Dapper system is totally different hardware from the newer system -- it's Dapper 6.06.1 running on a 266 Mhz PowerBook G3 and the newer system (since upgraded to Gutsy) is a 550 Mhz Pentium PC.
If anything the Firewire cable may be LONGER on the working setup than on the one that fails, but on the Pentium PC I added a generic PCI USB/Firewire card, and on the laptop I use a PCMCIA Firewire card made by IBM. Not certain of either chipset. I like the suggestion of using live CDs to test. Unfortunately that won't work on the laptop, but if I can scrounge together the necessary parts I will attempt to set up an Intel PC that I can try different versions of Ubuntu and see if I can replicate the issue. I've held back one of the problematic drives so I'm not risking live data. P.S.: I gather very few people use FireWire hard drives on linux... if I can work up a test case, what would happen next? -- Flaky firewire disks Fail Feisty but Do Dapper https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134396 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
