Re: sbp2 module not initialising external hdd connected on firewire port.

From: Ben Collins (bcollins_at_debian.org)
Date: 02/29/04

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To: Subodh Shrivastava <subodh@btopenworld.com>

    On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:52:10PM +0000, Subodh Shrivastava wrote:
    > Hi Ben,
    >
    > I am trying to connect my external HDD on firewire port. Linux is not
    > recognising this disk. Same disk is recognised in windows, also its
    > recognised in linux when connected on USB port. Attached here is my
    > .config file, lspci output, dmesg output.

    Can you try the latest code from our repo at linux1394.org? Or atleast
    try this patch applied to 2.6.4-rc1.

    --- ieee1394-2.6/drivers/ieee1394/csr1212.c (revision 1120)
    +++ ieee1394-2.6/drivers/ieee1394/csr1212.c (working copy)
    @@ -704,10 +704,11 @@
                             if (k->key.type == CSR1212_KV_TYPE_DIRECTORY) {
                                     /* If the current entry is a directory, then move all
                                      * the entries to the destruction list. */
    - tail->next = k->value.directory.dentries_head;
    - if (k->value.directory.dentries_head)
    + if (k->value.directory.dentries_head) {
    + tail->next = k->value.directory.dentries_head;
                                             k->value.directory.dentries_head->prev = tail;
    - tail = k->value.directory.dentries_tail;
    + tail = k->value.directory.dentries_tail;
    + }
                             }
                             free_keyval(k);
                             k = a;
    @@ -1347,6 +1348,12 @@
             case CSR1212_KV_TYPE_DIRECTORY:
                     for (i = 0; i < kvi_len; i++) {
                             csr1212_quad_t ki = kvi->data[i];
    +
    + /* Some devices put null entries in their unit
    + * directories. If we come across such and entry,
    + * then skip it. */
    + if (ki == 0x0)
    + continue;
                             ret = csr1212_parse_dir_entry(kv, ki,
                                                           (kv->offset +
                                                            quads_to_bytes(i + 1)), 

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