On May 4, 2004, Mark Fonnemann <markf78(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
btw, i read somewhere that FC2 will be shipping with a 2.6.6-*
kernel. i've
been following the changelog on
kernel.org and i've noticed a lot of ieee1394
fixes so i'm optimistic FC2 and firewire will be working as intended upon
shipping.
I'm not that optimistic. I've been tracking the linux1394 SVN tree,
and the latest release is still broken. Certainly not as broken as it
was in 2.6.5, but there's still some race condition in there that
causes firewire disk to turn belly up just while you most need them
:-/
NB. be sure to "/sbin/chkconfig kudzu off" otherwise the
setup will kernel
panic at boot.
I've heard about such myths, but I find it hard to believe them. If
it's kudzu that causes the hang, it's long past the end of the kernel
boot. If it's kudzu that hangs the machine, the solution is to have
the following lines in your /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias scsi_hostadapter sbp2
This prevents kudzu from attempting to probe for the ohci1394 module
and then unload it, the latter of which causes a system hang.
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Alexandre Oliva
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