Firewire issues
 

Hello folks, wondering if you could lend me a hand with this...

I have a two of LaCie d2 BiggerDisk (1 TeraByte each), both have FireWire 400, 800 and USB 2interfaces.

I'm running Fedora Core 2 with a 2.6.6-1.435 kernel on a ShuttleX: 2.40GHz PIV
processor, 512 MB RAM on a FB75 motherboard.

The hotplug feature works fine, both drivers are recognized...or at least seems to...

The point is that...using the firewire interface i get this message:

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ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Vendor: LaCie Model: BiggerDisk G931 Rev: 922
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
SCSI device sdb: 1953588673 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000237 MB)
sdb: asking for cache data failed
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb:SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Current sdb: sense key Aborted Command
Additional sense: Logical block address out of range
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 1953588672
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1953588672
SCSI error : <2 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Current sdb: sense key Aborted Command
Additional sense: Logical block address out of range
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 1953588672
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 1953588672
sdb1
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
######################################################

And when I try the USB2 interface i get this other message:

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updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device
updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 4
usb 3-2: device not accepting address 4, error -71
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 5
usb 3-2: device not accepting address 5, error -71
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 6
usb 3-2: device not accepting address 6, error -71
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address 7
usb 3-2: device not accepting address 7, error -71
usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using address 3
updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device
updfstab: Using deprecated /dev/sg mechanism instead of SG_IO on the actual device
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: LaCie Model: BiggerDisk G931 Rev: 922
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdc: 1953588673 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000237 MB)
sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
sdc:SCSI error : <4 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Current sdc: sense key Aborted Command
end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1953588672
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 1953588672
SCSI error : <4 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002
Current sdc: sense key Aborted Command
end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 1953588672
Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 1953588672
sdc1
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
#######################################################

Also,the list of loaded modules is:

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Module Size Used by
nfs 143936 0
usb_storage 53576 1
sbp2 18184 1
ohci1394 26392 0
ieee1394 278964 2 sbp2,ohci1394
nfsd 159488 9
exportfs 4224 1 nfsd
lockd 47816 3 nfs,nfsd
ipv6 184672 12
parport_pc 19392 1
lp 8236 0
parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 12932 2
rfcomm 27292 0
l2cap 16132 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 33508 4 rfcomm,l2cap
sunrpc 109924 20 nfs,nfsd,lockd
e100 25348 0
mii 3584 1 e100
ipt_REJECT 4736 1
ipt_state 1536 4
ip_conntrack 24968 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 2176 1
ip_tables 13568 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
floppy 47440 0
sg 27680 0
microcode 4768 0
dm_mod 32800 0
joydev 6976 0
uhci_hcd 24472 0
ehci_hcd 22916 0
button 4632 0
battery 6924 0
asus_acpi 8984 0
ac 3340 0
ata_piix 5380 3
libata 29188 1 ata_piix
sd_mod 16384 8
scsi_mod 91984 5 usb_storage,sbp2,sg,libata,sd_mod
#######################################################

Is this something bad? Even when I get these messages, I'm able to mount the disk
and copy, moving, delete data in it....but although these operations seem to work...
I don't like the fact that I'm still getting some error messages at detection time.

Sorry for such a big post...I tried to type as much info (usefull) as I could.

Thx in advance!

PD1: due to other issues, downgrading the kernel is not a possible solution.
PD2: I tried looking for info on the LaCie website...but they only provide support for
Windows and MacOS :P

What PCI card are you using, and did it set itself up?

I'm not asking because I can help, but because I'd like to buy a Big Disk (and the adapter) this week. I'm running Fedora Core 1 with an Asus MB that has no Firewire.

There's no PCI card. The Firewire and USB2.0 interfaces came with the motherboard.