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Snarkout

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Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

System hardlocks when ejecting firewire drives

Anyone else having this issue?  I've had it since the 2.6.16 kernels, and I'm currently running -8.  I have both an ipod and an external hard drive that will hang the system about 75% of the time when I "safely remove" or use the eject command and unhook them.  Both are firewire.  I can't find anything in the logs.

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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
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Snarkout

Member

Registered: 2005-11-13

Posts: 542

Re: System hardlocks when ejecting firewire drives

I may have solved this.  Sometime during recent upgrades my system started loading the eth1394 module along with the regular 1394 modules.  I've never seen this before, and have no use at all for it - more to the point, it was screwing with my existing ethernet.  Reasoning there might be a connection, I've added eth1394 to my blacklist, and so far have not been able to make my box hang.  I've also upgraded to 2.6.16.2 w/o issue.

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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
-Albert Einstein