Re: [PROBLEM] Firewire-related crashes in 2.6.4

From: Ben Collins
Date: Tue Mar 16 2004 - 08:21:56 EST


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:08:40PM +0100, Tillmann Steinbrecher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> although not as unstable as in 2.6.3, the usage of my external FireWire
> drive (Plextor 708A DVD burner with Oxford 911 FireWire interface) is
> still causing freezes. This time the freezes occur randomly when reading
> files from the drive, or when trying to rip a video DVD. It's a hard
> crash - no mouse movement, no ping on the network. It is not always
> reproducible, but occurs frequently.
>
> Here's a screenshot of the resulting kernel panic (sorry for the .jpg, I
> couldn't paste it as text, for obvious reasons):
>
> http://www.t-st.org/panic.jpg

This is fixed in our latest SVN repo. There were some race issues around
the packet lists.

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