[wellylug] DSE ieee1394 external hard drive operation problems

[Damon Lynch]

On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 01:11, Martin Bähr wrote:

> that is a linux firewire problem,
> i got the same with a different firewire case,
> and i heared it from others too.

Thanks Martin for this - I was wondering if it was a hardware problem. 
Do you know if the 2.6 kernel will have better luck?  I'm wondering if
the new scheduler will be able to handle problems like this better. 
Hopefully!

> 
> at least in my case it is only freezing the programs trying to access
> the disk, not the whole machine, like usb did occaionally.

Here, sometimes the mouse can be moved for a while, then it too freezes
for half a minute or so... far from ideal, but better than a total lock
up, for sure.

> 
> > model with perhaps a similar chipset said "Has performance issues in
> > copying big files if sbp2 is loaded without "sbp2_serialize_io=1".  How
> > do I make this 1, instead of the default of 0?
> 
> think you need to add this line in /etc/modules.conf (note that in
> debian this file is generated and may be overwritten)
> 
> options sbp2 sbp2_serialize_io=1

Thanks!

Damon