Bug#244539: firewire not supported
On 20 avr. 04, at 14:00, JP Moins wrote:
<x-tad-bigger>Detect hard drives: [ OK ] (2)
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NOTE 2: I dropped to the shell and did 'echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi' as soon as my keyboard was properly setup.
Please note I experienced 3 attempts where, although the FW drive was recognised, any access to it was horribly long, like 15 secs for a simple 'ls'. I *believe* that in this case the thing to do is repeat the scsi add command. In this semi-working state, the log shows lines like:
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Read (10) 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 <--- the Read (10) is the invariant part in these messages
ieee1394: sbp2: generating sbp2 fetch agent reset <---- which doesn't help much ;-)
Anyway a 4th attempt brought me a perfectly usable drive. I powered off the mac and drive before, dunno if it helped.
CORRECTION: my FW enclosure is a 400 mb/s one (plain firewire). The built-in sbp2 has the parameter max_speed=S800 set. This is the cause of the problem above. The workaround is:
- boot CD w/ fW drive off
- power on the FW drive once the installer has come up. This makes sbp2 go away (?) and come back with max_speed=S400
- echo scsi add-blah-blah
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