Bug 779732

Summary:	problems with FireWire VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller: firwire disk no mountable
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.3	Reporter:	Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 1
Target Milestone:	Final
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SUSE Other
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Attachments:	/var/log/messages /var/log/messages (oS 12.3 RC1)

Description Elmar Stellnberger 2012-09-11 12:08:49 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1

  Having tested the firewire-sbp2 disk module on different controllers, all were going well with Linux except the following: 

00:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Uniwill Computer Corp Device 8200
        Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 64 (8000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
        Region 0: Memory at dbffc800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
        Region 1: I/O ports at c800 [size=128]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci

  If I plug in a firewire hard disk then either /dev/sdb does not occur at all or I get problems trying to mount /dev/sdb; see for the attached dmesg (firewire-sbp2 was modprobed manually to enable disc access.).

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-09-11 12:11:41 UTC

Created attachment 505206 [details]
/var/log/messages

Comment 2 Elmar Stellnberger 2012-09-26 18:38:01 UTC

What about this one?

Comment 3 Elmar Stellnberger 2013-02-10 19:39:51 UTC

still an issue for openSUSE 12.3, RC1. Should I attach a new dmesg?
Please have a look if you find some time! 
  (Firewire and USB1.1 are the only connectors for this PC still doing its job very well. Furthermore I do sometimes prefer firewire over usb2.0 on current PCs as that won`t use up another USB connector.).

Comment 4 Elmar Stellnberger 2013-02-10 20:55:36 UTC

Created attachment 524065 [details]
/var/log/messages (oS 12.3 RC1)

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2013-02-23 16:51:57 UTC

report this at bugs.kernel.org - we can't support hardware that isn't supported by the kernel.