Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-25 Thread Stefan Richter
Manuel Lauss wrote: > I tried 2.6.23 in the meantime, it's *MUCH* harder to trigger; in fact > I had to skip through movies for ~10 minutes to get the orb timeout. > The disk was inaccessible for a few seconds then recovered fine. > >> Could you (and everyone else who has repeated I/O errors with

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-24 Thread Manuel Lauss
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:56:59PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Manuel Lauss wrote: > > Actually, copying data to the disk while playing/seeking through a moviefile > > which is also located on it is already enough. Forget the NFS thing... > > > > Afterwards the firewire_sbp2 module has to be rm

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-24 Thread Stefan Richter
Manuel Lauss wrote: > Actually, copying data to the disk while playing/seeking through a moviefile > which is also located on it is already enough. Forget the NFS thing... > > Afterwards the firewire_sbp2 module has to be rmmod-ed and modprobed again > or it will continue to throw errors even for

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Manuel Lauss
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:33:36PM +0200, Manuel Lauss wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:34:28PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Manuel Lauss wrote: > > > I noticed the failures start when there are 2 concurrent disk accesses > > > (copy something from fw disk on shell 1 and it runs fine; start

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Manuel Lauss
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:34:28PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Manuel Lauss wrote: > > I noticed the failures start when there are 2 concurrent disk accesses > > (copy something from fw disk on shell 1 and it runs fine; start to > > copy something TO the fw disk on shell 2 and a "management writ

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Stefan Richter
Manuel Lauss wrote: > I noticed the failures start when there are 2 concurrent disk accesses > (copy something from fw disk on shell 1 and it runs fine; start to > copy something TO the fw disk on shell 2 and a "management write failed" > error appears after 1-2 sec. with the orb timeout after a lo

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Stefan Richter
Andreas Messer wrote: > On Monday, 23. Juli 2007 01:34 Stefan Richter wrote: >> Are you sure the FireWire controller is from VIA? Check with lscpi. >> The NVidia nForce2 chipset has an own FireWire controller, and that one >> is only "supported" by a gross hack in ohci1394 and at the moment >> uns

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Andreas Micklei
Am Montag, 23. Juli 2007 schrieb Andreas Messer: > The first System, where harddisc don't work at all with the new stack: > Nvidia NForce2 Ultra Chipset; 1GB RAM; XP-M 2600; FW-Controller is > PCI addon card; lspci says Via Additional note: On the machine where my iPod 3G corruption occure I have

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Manuel Lauss
Hi, On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:40:21AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Manuel Lauss wrote: > > I too experience these bugs with the new fw stack; this time with a TI > > OHCI-1394a combo chip in 2 different laptops and a Via 1394 pci addon card. > > The target is a an external hd enclosure with an

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Andreas Messer
On Monday, 23. Juli 2007 01:34 Stefan Richter wrote: > (quoting in full for linux1394-devel, Cc added) > > Andreas Messer wrote at LKML: > > Hello, > > > > I tried the new firewire stack with a external harddisc and a external > > dvd writer and get massive i/o problems. Here is the kernel output f

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-23 Thread Stefan Richter
Manuel Lauss wrote: > I too experience these bugs with the new fw stack; this time with a TI > OHCI-1394a combo chip in 2 different laptops and a Via 1394 pci addon card. > The target is a an external hd enclosure with an Oxford Semi chip. Thanks for the info. Then there is definitely a driver pr

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-22 Thread Manuel Lauss
Hello, On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:34:11AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Software: > > Kernel Vanilla 2.6.22, gcc 4.1.2. > > > > On another PC same problem, but replugging one or two times get the thing > > working. > > Which controller does this other PC have? I too experience these bu

Re: [BUG] firewire: mass-storage i/o-problems

2007-07-22 Thread Stefan Richter
(quoting in full for linux1394-devel, Cc added) Andreas Messer wrote at LKML: > Hello, > > I tried the new firewire stack with a external harddisc and a external dvd > writer and get massive i/o problems. Here is the kernel output for the > harddisc. Please cc me for further questions. I hope i