External firewire disk curruption on reads under FC1...

[Tom Gordon]

jweiss1 wrote:

>I was just wondering whether anybody had seen disk corruptions under FC1 with 
>external firewire hard drives. I have tried it on three different machines now 
>  
>
No problems here.

[memeyou at Wolley memeyou]$ /sbin/lspci|grep 1394
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 
1394) Controller (rev a3)
[memeyou at Wolley memeyou]$ cp /mnt/max/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.iso 
KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.i so.fw
[memeyou at Wolley memeyou]$ md5sum KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.iso.fw
b41807dae6c61122f05363d8bfa7bfa0  KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.iso.fw

Which is the appropriate md5, b41807dae6c61122f05363d8bfa7bfa0, as stated at
http://source.rfc822.org/pub/mirror/knoppix/KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-24-EN.iso.md5

Other information:

[memeyou at Wolley memeyou]$ uname -a
Linux Wolley 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:31:21 EST 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[memeyou at Wolley memeyou]$ df -a|grep max
/dev/sda1            117189600  69657952  47531648  60% /mnt/max

Dmesg:
--SNIP--
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0d.0 to 64
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[7]  MMIO=[e8082000-e80827ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
ohci1394_0: SelfID received outside of bus reset sequence
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0010b92000d5b4ea]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[00e018000019b853]
--SNIP--

--SNIP--
blk: queue dcae1a14, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
  Vendor: Maxtor    Model: 5000DV            Rev: 0100
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 06
blk: queue dcae1614, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 240119808 512-byte hdwr sectors (122941 MB)
 sda: sda1
--SNIP--


Tom