Hi,
I just installed 7.3 on a Dell Precision 530 (a large dual cpu
workstation, although at present only 1 cpu is installed). I did a live
update to install new patches/packages, including NVIDIA drivers. I then
installed a new 2.4.16-SMP kernel. The box comes with built-in firewire,
and I was able to modprobe ohci1394, and it loaded the ieee1394 and
ohci1394 modules. I have a Maxtor 160GB firewire harddrive that worked
with no problem under Windows2000/sp2. When I tried to load the sbp2
module to connect the harddrive, the system freezes hard (no mouse or
keyboard response).
Some other issues that may be relevent: the system has ultra wide SCSI,
with 2 scsi drives (/dev/sda windows, /dev/sdb with Linux), and has a
IDE CDRW, and these all show up under linux. /proc/scsi/scsi shows SCSI
device 0 0 0 0 to be the CDRW, devices 1 0 0 0 ad 1 0 1 0 are the scsi
hard drives.
Any ideas as to why the system freezes when I modprobe sbp2.o?
Thanks
John