Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:53:31 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: only ieee1394 from 2.4.20 works for me |
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On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 03:33:39PM +0100, Kai Engert wrote: > In the last year I have been playing with a variety of combinations of > ieee1394 controllers, machines, external mass storage devices and linux > kernel versions. So have some friends of mine. > > The only version that works for us is the ieee1394 code that was > included with kernel version 2.4.20. > > (I removed drivers/ieee1394 completely, and replaced it with > drivers/ieee1394 from 2.4.20) > > Using that snapshot, we are able to transfer data to disks and video > from a camcorder just fine, in all combinations we have tested. > > Every other kernel version, both older or newer than 2.4.20, is broken. > We either see random errors, or writing data to disks stalls > immediately, or daisy chained devices don't work. > > I'm currently using the official Fedora core 1 series kernels, patched > that way, and it works like a charm. > > Please consider to use the 2.4.20 ieee1394 snapshot in future 2.4.x > releases.
It's pretty strange that I haven't heard of such problems. Maybe you would consider trying to debug the problem rather than reverting to source that is several years old (and that I know is broken).
Latest 2.4.x code (that which is in our SVN repo) works fine for me.
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