freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE, 4 pin laptop firewire ports, and 6 pin firewire hard disk drives

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

At Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:40:24 -0400,
Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: <VIA VT6306> port 0x8000-0x807f mem 0xe4101000-0xe41017ff irq 15 at device 10.0 on pci0
> Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: OHCI version 1.0 (ROM=1)
> Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channel is 8.
> Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: EUI64 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:03:4d

EUI64 seems invalid.
Do you get the same id on FreeBSD-5 and PowerBook?

> I'm going to try this same card and drive on a 5.2.1 machine,
> but I'm starting to think that something is wrong with FreeBSD's
> firewire implementation. The drive always works fine on my boss's
> Powerbook.

It's not necessary because of firewire implementation.
If the parent bus such as PCI/Cardbus is not initialized correctly,
the firewire can not work correctly.

The firewire codes in -stable and -current are very close.
PCI and related codes are very different.

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