Bug#498863: More info on firewire issues

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Sunday 07 December 2008, Harry Mofo wrote:
> It looks like my problems with the Dec 5 & 6 installer builds is due to
> the CD burner.  The Dec 6 build (debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso
> 0faa173fe594afdb374944cfc6610743) doesn't exhibit the freezing behavior
> if I burn the CD from another machine so I need to do some
> investigation of that here.

Thanks for that info. That did seem most likely. Good luck tracing the 
problem.

> Even with the new installer build I see the the original problems - the
> IO errors and cdrom-detect slowness/failures (and the Etch installer is
> still fine).  Maybe it is just some odd combination of hardware issues
> with this machine.

I'll leave that to others to follow up on.

Cheers,
FJP