[Discuss] Firewire 800 controller and sbp2

[Leamy Acoustic Art Inc.]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:56 -0800, pw wrote:

> Jeremy wrote:
> > On 30-Nov-06, at 1:17 PM, pw wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> The system does not autodetect firewire drives
> >> that are attached and then powered. The system automounts
> >> USB devices though. Perhaps this is a kernel deficiency...
> >>
> >> Peter
> > 
> > 
> > Peter,
> > 
> > Just out of curiosity which distro, release and kernel version are  you 
> > using on this system?
> > 
> > Jeremy
> 
> 
> The distro is Mandriva 2007 using the stock distribuion kernel.
> I'm not near the machine right now so I can't give
> the specific kernel version.  2.6 something (??)
> 
> 
> Peter


I have had some odd problems with Mandriva 2007. Network issues
involving Samba mostly, but even some device issues. Enough that I am
not planning on upgrading my 2006 desktop, and my laptop is probably
going to get a network install of Kubuntu.

Michael.