Comment 18 for bug 134396
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| Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote | #18 |
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sorry for the delayed response --
Unfortunately the Dapper system is totally different hardware from the newer system -- it's Dapper 6.06.1 running on a 266 Mhz PowerBook G3 and the newer system (since upgraded to Gutsy) is a 550 Mhz Pentium PC.
If anything the Firewire cable may be LONGER on the working setup than on the one that fails, but on the Pentium PC I added a generic PCI USB/Firewire card, and on the laptop I use a PCMCIA Firewire card made by IBM. Not certain of either chipset.
I like the suggestion of using live CDs to test. Unfortunately that won't work on the laptop, but if I can scrounge together the necessary parts I will attempt to set up an Intel PC that I can try different versions of Ubuntu and see if I can replicate the issue. I've held back one of the problematic drives so I'm not risking live data.
P.S.: I gather very few people use FireWire hard drives on linux... if I can work up a test case, what would happen next?