On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:19:40AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw > > > is rock solid. The only trick is to plug in the disk _after_ Linux has > > > booted. > > > > Ah, ... i never did that i plugged it in from startup (and was running the > > ubuntu live cd even). it is a 1Ghz tibook (last tibook generation i > > believe). > > No doubt it's hotplug/discover messing things up here.
How can that be ? > > I also have similar problem on the pegasos though, but then it uses a VIA > > firewire chip, so things may be different. > > > > The problem don't happens when merely usign the disk, not when creating full > > DVD isos from data on the firewire disk to the local disk, but only when > > creating a DVD iso from data on the firewire disk and putting the result on > > the firewire disk. The other case i had was when trying a full backup of the > > Never tried that - I've always burned DVDs on the fly. Which is similar as > placing the ISO on the IDE drive, of course. Ah, but i used an external firewire DVD burner :) Didn't try on the fly burning though. > > 60GB of data of the linux partition of my powerbook in order to make a new > > install. > > That I've done successfully. But I've used fw800 for that - if anything, > it should have stressed out the hardware even more. > > > I was using an external firewire/usb case with a standard IDE disk in it, so > > maybe this also influences ti somehow. > > Depending on the fw adapter in the disk case, maybe. That's all black box > anyway (but everyone uses that stuff, and it usually works). Ok. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
