Re: 1394 IDE Drives on RHEL As 2.1

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:42:25PM -0600, Alan Williams wrote:
> My Understanding was that Redhat back ported some of the later features from
> 2.6 into the Enterprise Server addition and so I was hoping that this might
> have included the ieee1394 stuff. I don't know from a source perspective
> what happens on the e (for enterprise) branch.

They backported a fair bit from more recent 2.4 kernels to 2.4.9, but it
still lacks many features found in 2.6. I didn't see any 1394 fixes
in any of their patches.

> It would seem from this that you would be recommending staying with the 2.4
> branch but using something newer, like RHEL V3. Is that the case?
>
> My other issue is that Oracle only officially supports RHEL 2.1 or RHEL 3 or
> Suse Enterprise Server 8 so I wanted to stay as close to one of these as I
> can so that I don't get into problems when loading Oracle.

Personally, I'd like everyone to run a recent 2.6 and contribute bug
reports and patches to make that as good as recent 2.4 kernels.
However, I realize that many people just want working ieee1394 _now_,
and 2.4 may help with that. In your case, I recommend RHEL 3 if you
really need to stick with something Oracle supports.

You could also try one of Oracle's "firewire kernels":
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/files/
These are not officially supported by Oracle as far as I know.

> What are your concerns with the 2.6.9 branch? I have access to a fedora core
> 2 release that I could also try.

2.6.9 is missing several ieee1394 bugfixes, but unfortunately these are
still "in limbo" waiting for 2.6.11 to be released. For best results with
2.6.x, run the latest -mm kernel, linux1394.org SVN on top of the latest
Linus kernel, or my linux-1394 BK tree.

2.6 in general is said to be less stable than 2.4 for ieee1394, but I
don't run 2.4 so I can't comment.

Jody

>
> Regards Alan

A: Because it destroys the flow of the conversation.
Q: Why not?
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?

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Received on Tue Feb 22 03:51:17 2005