Problems with SB2 Module - I think

Ok, here's the situation I have a FW Hard Drive that I'm having problems
reading on my linux system. When I try to read I get the errors detailed
below and extremely slow reading. If I try to play an mp3 off the drive
it will stop ever 20-40 seconds for about 10 seconds. Copying, well it's
taken me over an hour to try to copy 13gb off it... and it's still
going. When it "pauses" it sounds like the disk spins down and then
spins back up. It also seems that the cpu takes a hit when this happens,
I'm not sure why.

For verification I have used this drive just fine on a Powerbook G3/400,
it's actually nice and fast. I haven't actually tested windows since
it's not nearly flexible enough in fs formats (the drive currently only
has a hfs+ partition) After browsing some of the posts on the net I have
heard people surmise that this may be a heat issue or something similar.
Well, the drive does get hotter when connected to my linux system then
to the mac, even just sitting there, that said I don't think heat build
up is a problem. To verify this I've removed the case around the drive
and the drive is warm to the touch but nothing worse then one of my ide
drives in my computer.

I would really like to get this going; any ideas welcomed! I'm a bit new
to debian and don't know where everything resides so you may have to be
patient; I'm going to ask stupid questions (but I'll try to find out the
answers elsewhere first.)

Thanks

Andre Baron

Following are some details from my system.

First off here's a snippet from my dmesg:

ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Read (10) 00 01 45 d9 a8 00 00 f8 00
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Read (10) 00 01 45 f5 a8 00 00 f8 00
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Read (10) 00 01 45 f6 a8 00 00 f8 00

Now for my system details:
Debian
Kernel: Custom Compiled 2.6.7
IEEE1394 Version: 400
Libraw info:
  Section: libs
  Installed-Size: 23
  Maintainer: Andreas Bombe <aeb@debian.org>
  Architecture: i386
  Source: libraw1394
  Version: 0.9.0-2
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1), makedev (>= 2.3.1-49)
  Filename: pool/main/libr/libraw1394/libraw1394-5_0.9.0-2_i386.deb
  Size: 7068
  MD5sum: 60bb11954ea309c3e9bf974cf66bba04
Driver: OHCI
no /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices
adapter: Onboard nForce2
Case adapter: Gensys GW711FW
lspci output:
  0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
version?) (rev c1)
  0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
0 (rev c1)
  0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
4 (rev c1)
  0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
3 (rev c1)
  0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
2 (rev c1)
  0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
5 (rev c1)
  0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
  0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
  0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
  0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
  0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
  0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
  0000:00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
  0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2
AC97 Audio
  Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
  0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI
Bridge (rev a3)
  0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
  0000:00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire
(IEEE 139
  4) Controller (rev a3)
  0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
  0000:01:04.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Yukon
Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000Base-T Adapter (rev 13)
  0000:01:07.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878
Video Capture (rev 02)
  0000:01:07.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio
Capture (rev 02)
  0000:01:08.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875
(rev 04)
  0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34
[GeForce FX 5200

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