2.4.18+ 867 Mhz QuickSilver = totally crazy

[Bill Fink]

On Wed Apr 10 2002, Tom Moreton wrote:

> We are migrating our serving operations to YDL from OSX. I am in a 
> quandry as to the best way to back up the linux box. Currently, on 
> OSX, we backup to a firewire disk, which we can remove and burn cds 
> from. However, it looks complicated to get firewire working with YDL, 
> and I cannot get my USB hard drive to work with YDL - it throws up 
> errors when plugged in.

Hi Tom,

I'm using a LaCie 80 GB firewire disk without too many problems on my
dual 500 MHz G4 running a UP 2.4.18-ben0 kernel.  It's a little flaky
sometimes getting it connected at first.  Sometimes I have to rmmod/modprobe
ohci1394 a couple of times until I get a "good" hotplug message from dmesg,
and/or sometimes I have to unplug/plug the actual firewire cable, but that's
less frequent.  Once the drive is properly recognized though it seems to
work fairly well (I rsync my running system to the firewire disk about once
a week for backup).  BTW, here are the "good" messages from dmesg:

ohci1394: $Revision: 1.98 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 02:0a.0 (0010 -> 0012)
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[63]  MMIO=[80080000-80080800]  Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: NodeMgr: hotplug policy returned -2
ieee1394: Device added: Node[00:1023]  GUID[00000000204027a1]  [LaCie Group SA  ]
ieee1394: Host added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[00000000feeb324a]  [Linux OHCI-1394]

						-Bill