On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 19:53, Mark Fonnemann wrote:
maybe officially it was supported but the implementation was quite
buggy and
IMHO unusable (at least for removable disks). The FC2 distribution with the 2.6
kernels are definitely a tremendous improvement over FC1.
Except for the fact that it (FireWire support) is currently disabled.
But I am looking forward to the improvements in 2.6 for hotpluggable
devices.
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.
That sounds very promising.
also, i recommend the following setup for optimal firewire
performance for the
time being:
[root@markf78 home]# rpm -q fedora-release initscripts SysVinit kernel
fedora-release-1.92-1
initscripts-7.50-1
SysVinit-2.85-25
kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 (last known working firewire kernel)
NB. be sure to "/sbin/chkconfig kudzu off" otherwise the setup will kernel
panic at boot. i've experienced no problems, bugs, or any other errors with the
above setup.
hope this helps...
That's very helpful advice. As I said I'm still on RHL9 which is now EOL
and so I need to come up with something to replace my current OS soon.
If nothing prepackaged presents itself I'll follow your advice.
Best, Darren
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