On Fri 21 Apr 2006 at 16:44:44 +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> What are you running? I used to have similar problems earlier, but
> from certain point on -current it seems to have been sorted out. This

I'm running 3.0 on the main box where I tried this, but I can install
current on my laptop for experiments (both have firewire although with
different connectors).

> is the relevant part of my dmesg:

Your messages look different from mine. It now occurs to me, Wasn't
FreeBSD's firewire code imported? That may make a big difference of
course.  I obviously should try that.

fwohci0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: VIA Technologies VT6306 IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev. 0x80)
fwohci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16 (irq 11)
fwohci0: OHCI 1.0, 00:e0:18:00:00:b8:06:f5, 400Mb/s, 2048 max_rec, 4 ir_ctx, 8 it_ctx
fw0 at fwohci0: 00:e0:18:00:00:b8:06:f5:0a:02:ff:ff:f0:01:00:00

(now turning on disk)

fwnode0 at fwohci0 Node 0: UID 00:10:10:05:40:01:87:34
fwnode0: Link Speed: 400Mb/s, max_rec: 2048 bytes
sbpscsi0 at fwnode0
scsibus0 at sbpscsi0: 1 target, 1 lun per target
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DMI, WD3000JB-00KFA0, 2.43> disk fixed
sd0: fabricating a geometry
sd0: 279 GB, 286168 cyl, 64 head, 32 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 586072368 sectors

> Chavdar
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