Re: Firewire troubles with SMP kernel

[Ben Collins]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:13:26PM -0800, Alexey Goldin wrote:
> Thanks to fine people who helped me to sort out problems with my laptop
> couple of months ago. This is the timeto ask for help again :-)
> 
> Please cc: any reply to me as I am not subscribed to the list. 
> 
> Well, I know firewire with SMP is a little bit iffy. 
> However we managed to get it working on one computer and we hoped it
> will work with other. Here is what we have instead.
> 
> The first computer is dual Athlon-MP with Tyan mobo, firewire card is 
> fairly basic, we got it from
> http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gooddealpc-store/139pci3p.html 
> We tried it with Western Digital 120GB firewire drives and with IDE
> enclosures:

I'm running firewire with SMP kernels with no problems. I think the
issue is you are using old drivers that may not be working with SMP. Try
build the latest drivers from linux1394.org for 2.4.

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