Re: Working Firewire in FC2?

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 21:34, Gene C. wrote:

> OK, I have another kernel problem which I have reported to both the Red Hat 
> bugzilla and the kernel bugzilla ... 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=122687 and 
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2670
> 
> The problem is that I have getting extremely poor performance on a SATA drive 
> with the 2.6 kernel (a bit over 3 MB/sec) as compared to the 2.4 kernel 
> (approximately 55 MB/sec).
> 
> I am not a kernel hacker so I am not attempting to look at the kernel code 
> myself.  I also do not expect Red Hat folks to work on this directly ... the 
> firewire support is certainly more important for more users.
> 
> So, who do I gripe to to about this?  I do not look forward to posting the 
> problem to the kernel mailing list since I would then need to monitor that 
> mailing list and, while signal to noise on the list is very good, the volume 
> is a killer.

the libata maintainer may be a good person to prod. (jgarzik pobox com)

	Dave