Re: fwohci users, anyone ?

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

On 2020-10-21 15:29, Michael van Elst wrote:
> Is anyone using firewire hardware ? In particular for mass storage ?

I would love to, but - has it ever been usable?

Attaching a firewire disk to

%  uname -a
NetBSD Gstoder 9.99.48 NetBSD 9.99.48 (GA-MA770-UD3-$Revision$) #0: Thu 
Oct 22 12:43:04 CEST 2020 
hf@Hochstuhl:/var/obj/netbsd-builds/developer/amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GA-MA770-UD3 
amd64
%

results in

[  3628.304008] fwohci0: BUS reset
[  3628.304008] fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=3, non CYCLEMASTER mode
[  3628.304008] ieee1394if0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1 cable IRM irm(0) (me)
[  3628.304008] ieee1394if0: root node is not cycle master capable
[  3628.304008] ieee1394if0: bus manager 0
[  3628.304008] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: too many cycle lost, 
no cycle master present?
[  3628.554096] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: txd err=14 ack busy_X
[  3628.554096] ieee1394if0: autoconfiguration error: node1: 
explore_read_quads failure
[  3628.554096] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: txd err=14 ack busy_X
[  3628.554096] ieee1394if0: autoconfiguration error: node1: 
explore_read_quads failure
[  3628.554096] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: txd err=14 ack busy_X
[  3628.554096] ieee1394if0: autoconfiguration error: node1: 
explore_read_quads failure
[  3655.923722] fwohci0: BUS reset
[  3655.923722] fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=4, CYCLEMASTER mode
[  3655.923722] ieee1394if0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0 cable IRM irm(0) (me)
[  3655.923722] ieee1394if0: bus manager 0
[  3657.204171] fwohci0: BUS reset
[  3657.204171] fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=6, non CYCLEMASTER mode
[  3657.204171] ieee1394if0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1 cable IRM irm(0) (me)
[  3657.204171] ieee1394if0: root node is not cycle master capable
[  3657.204171] ieee1394if0: bus manager 0
[  3657.204171] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: too many cycle lost, 
no cycle master present?
[  3657.454259] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: txd err=14 ack busy_X
[  3657.454259] ieee1394if0: autoconfiguration error: node1: 
explore_read_quads failure
[  3657.454259] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: txd err=14 ack busy_X
[  3657.454259] ieee1394if0: autoconfiguration error: node1: 
explore_read_quads failure
[  3657.454259] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: txd err=14 ack busy_X
[  3657.454259] ieee1394if0: autoconfiguration error: node1: 
explore_read_quads failure
[  3700.549400] fwohci0: BUS reset
[  3700.549400] fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=7, CYCLEMASTER mode
[  3700.549400] ieee1394if0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0 cable IRM irm(0) (me)
[  3700.549400] ieee1394if0: bus manager 0
[  3701.819846] fwohci0: BUS reset
[  3701.819846] fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=9, non CYCLEMASTER mode
[  3701.829849] ieee1394if0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1 cable IRM irm(0) (me)
[  3701.829849] ieee1394if0: root node is not cycle master capable
[  3701.829849] ieee1394if0: bus manager 0
[  3701.829849] fwohci0: autoconfiguration error: too many cycle lost, 
no cycle master present?

-- not anything that I would trust data with.

Cheerio,
Hauke

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