From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Marcus O.C. Metzler" Message-ID: <15244.11337.823289.698210@titan.metzler> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 01:42:01 +0200 (MEST) To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: firewire screwup Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, I am having some trouble with firewire on my powerbook g4. On saturday I tried the latest benh kernel and everything worked fine until I tried to modprobe the ohci1394 module. The mchine crashed instantly. After that the time was reset to Aug. 1933 (?? not 1970), but everything else seemed ok. Since I had bought a new hard drive that day, I wanted to boot from my OS 9.1 disk to install it on the drive, but the boot process hung after a while the progress bar just stoped moving. Ok, put back the old drive and try to boot from that one. Same story :(. So pop in the hardware test CD to see if something broke. Nope, everything was fine according to the test. But booting into open firmware showed some error mesages on the top of the screen. Something about failed self-id test. Hmm, has to be something about firewire. So I tried booting an old kernel where firewire didn't work but didn't crash either. This time it crashed instantly. Next I booted into the firewire disk mode by holding down T after turning on the powerbook. I connected to my desktop PC where firewire works with kernel 2.4.6 and the powerbook got the PC to hang. After removing the cable from the powerbook, the PC worked again and dmesg said ohci1394_0: SelfID process finished but NodeID not valid: 0800FFC0 ohci1394_0: IntEvent: 00030000 over and over. So my guess is that something like that also happens with OS 9.1 and by the way OSX. Is there any way to fix this? I tried to reset the boot parameters and the open firmware default, but that didn't help. Is my firewire port fried? Can I disable the port? I mainly want to install Linux on the new disk, but I don't know if that works without a Mac partition. Having OSX for some testing would be nice too. Any help would be appreciated. Marcus -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Marcus Metzler mocm@netcologne.de http://www.metzlerbros.de mocm@convergence.de http://www.convergence.de Convergence Integrated Media GmbH Rosenthaler Str. 51 D-10178 Berlin --------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/