Re: Sbp2 problems and iPod hangs

Juergen Helmers wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 17:24, Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> 1. after umounting the iPod, "rmmod sbp2" hangs.
>> the only chances I see here are an update
...
>> or a dumbed-down kernel configuration (e.g. no smp support or whatnot).
...
> well I do have an SMP system which might complicate things, I suppose...

Correct me if I am wrong, but AFAIK an SMP machine can boot a UP kernel
just as well. If the problem vanishes under a UP kernel, please report
it as a bug to linux1394-devel.

>>> 2. During transfers of larger amounts of data, the arrows spinning
>>> in a circle stop and the iPod does not respond anymore.
...
>> Also try serialize_io=1
> I tried that and well it works like a charm so far. I added the
> "serialize_io=1 max_speed=1" to /etc/modules.conf an so far I havent had
> a single crash of the iPod even under heavy load.

It is obviously a bug in the 1394 drivers or of one of the kernel parts
they use.

-- 
Stefan Richter
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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