RE: Linux and firewire drives...

["Ian" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uh-huh.

So, basically, you expended a stack of effort, but because what you were
doing was ever so slightly unusual, it just point blank didn't work.

Frustrated, you spoke to every Linux expert you could get, and despite the
calls of "you should use Linux" whenever you admit to using
windows, there
was a large amount of head scratching until eventually, after *ridiculous*
amounts of time was spent, Someone cracks the ludicrously arcane commands
or
combination of modules to compile in order to make it behave... It works.

Kinda.

The wonder now being, just how stable is it - are you now in the situation
that you can't update anything for fear of borking it again?

Hey - that's the linux experience all right! :D

It's a real pity that NT4 doesn't support firewire - I went back to NT4 for
my media server, and have been pleased as punch since - lightning fast
compared to later MS OS'es and starts in less than 10 seconds, and not a
kernel recompile in sight ;)

Ian.



-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 March 2005 00:10
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Linux and firewire drives...



My TLB seems to have fixed it...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Ewing [mailto:geekstah@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 March 2005 00:07
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Linux and firewire drives...
>
>
> even in technical terms it's broken
>
> Scott.
>
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:21:00 -0000, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Someone was saying about Linux not seeing all their
> firewire drives a
> > while ago.
> >
> > Well I've been trying to move over to linux this weekend
> and a couple
> > of friends (now affectionately referred to as "TLBs" -
Tame Linux
> > Biatches) have spent much of the weekend SSH'd into my
> machine trying
> > to work out the problem and have come up with this:
> >
> >
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg02439.html
> >
> > http://www.metamorpher.de/linux1394/
> >
> > ...in layman's terms it's broken. :-(
> >
> > Hopefully someone will fix it.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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