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

[Jesse Guardiani]

Well, I bought a VIA VT6303 6 pin bus-power-providing
controller card for a FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE machine I
use here at the office.

I tried the same FW hdd on this card and I'm getting
the same results: Nothing happens. My firewire device
and sbp devices are compiled into the kernel and detected:

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
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 3 ports.
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
Apr 16 10:17:10 billmax /kernel: firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)

But the *ONLY* output I've been able to get when connecting
the drive is this:

Apr 16 10:19:06 billmax /kernel: WARNING: driver fw should register devices with make_dev() (dev_t = "#fw/0")

And I can't make it repeat that output either.

I've tried multiple `fwcontrol -r` commands, both before
and after connecting the drive. Here's fwcontrol -t:

% fwcontrol -t
crc_len: 3 generation:1 node_count:1 sid_count:1
id link gap_cnt speed delay cIRM power port0 port1 port2 ini more
00    1      63  S400     0    1   15W     -     -     -   1    0


And fwcontrol -t never seems to change if I connect a drive.

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.

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Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
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