From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261250AbUBVNox (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:44:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261260AbUBVNow (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:44:52 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]:29139 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261250AbUBVNot (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:44:49 -0500 Message-ID: <4038B244.2020209@t-st.org> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:44:36 +0100 From: Tillmann Steinbrecher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031205 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: PROBLEM: 2.6.3 + external firewire dvd writer - frequent freezes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:440c24a95efadc9d8e1374cf9e681760 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm using an external FireWire DVD writer (Plextor 708 in case w/Oxford 911 chipset). This was working fine until kernel 2.6.2. Since I upgraded to 2.6.3, it frequently happens that the system totally freezes when trying to write a DVD. It's really a hard crash, no mouse movement, no ping on the network. Reset required. It doesn't happen each time I try to burn a DVD, but in about 20% the cases. So basically the writer is unusable with 2.6.3. I searched the web and archives for the problem, but didn't find any results, except for one guy describing the same problem, also with 2.6.3, also on this mailing list here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.2/0950.html However he didn't get any replies. Please CC: me for replies, or if anybody needs .config, lspci, or other info. The firewire controller is a Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A. bye & thanks for your time, Tillmann