Total Lockup when copying from Firewire HD to XFS partition

teknomage1

Okay so anytime I copy more than a trivial amount of data from my IEE1394 harddrive which is FAT32 formatted to my local drive which uses XFS the whole system locks up and not even sshd is accessible. When I reboot the system doesn't describe any corruption, so what can I do to avoid this?

EDIT: suppose I should list my kernel specs and such... AMD Athlon XP 1700 processor running 2.6.5-mm1 and the nvidia kernel modules (if that matters...)

Okay so switching to gentoo-dev-sources had no effect.... I'm starting to suspect this has to do with virtual memory. I don't actually have a swap partition just a swapfile in /home. Could the system be getting cinfused when it tries to write to both the swapfile and the perform the file copy operation on the same drive?

vamanos · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject:

I have the exact same problem. Only copying from a ntfs drive to reiserfs. Also tried a ext3 partition but no dice. I'm attempting to move about 12gb of data and it barely makes it through 1gb before locking up.

I'm on an athlon xp 2000+, Nforce2 MB, a Texas instruments pci firewire card running on 2.6.5 dev sources.

I've tried this on Gnome, KDE and xfce4 and it happens on all of them.

I have my swap partition set up the normal way so I doubt it's caused by virtual memory...

Anyone have any clues as to what this might be?

[EDIT] I just tried what was mentioned in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=160126&highlight=firewire+lockup but it didn't fix it for me, although I managed to copy about 4gb before it froze.
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hinken · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 109

Have you also nforce2 chipset?

I have had these freezes for a while now(when copying from my firewiredisk).
I have actually permanantly disconnected my firewiredisk(the hangups destroyed my reiserfs system) so I cant really help you much.

You can try the latest love-sources for the latest nforce2 chipset patches and see if that helps.

/hinken

teknomage1 · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

I do not use an nforce2 motherboard. I have a via KT7 something, with an ATI PCI IEEE1394 adapter. The only commonality I see here is the firewire component so I guess that's where I'll start investigating.

ikshaar · Posted: Fri May 07, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

So I am not the only one... I gave up two weeks ago on Firewire under Linux because of that... In my case it freezes when copying to the FireWire drive. Create directory and small files are ok as you said. But when I start big files, it freezes after a short time... sometimes very short.

I did it only twice then I moved the disk to a Windows machine (shared and mounted by samba) ... it was a sad day for my Gentoo pride :cry:

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