Re: ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2util_allocate_request_packet

Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:21:48 -0500


On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 10:08:08PM +0100, Sebastian Zimmermann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a problem using an external firewire harddrive. When writing to
> the disk (badblocks -w) I get an error message about every minute:
>
> kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2util_allocate_request_packet - no packets
> available!
> kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2util_allocate_write_request_packet failed
> kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
> kernel: Write (10) 00 09 51 b4 4a 00 00 fe 00
>
> This by itself is - except for small pauses once and then - no problem.
> But when writing much data (dd for 40 GB), it gets worse after some
> time:

This is fixed the patch I send against -pre5. You can use the
branches/linux-2.4 directory in the repo as a direct replacement for
drivers/ieee1394 in fact (www.linux1394.org).

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