From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 7 02:34:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C301065674 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 02:34:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: from smtp121.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp121.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.53.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4CF918FC12 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 2008 02:34:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike.jeays@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 81353 invoked from network); 7 Nov 2008 02:07:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Disposition:Message-Id; b=Q8u/BnNFJxswPyy2/yznANPKyBHh/vnhWNvxZ4SHJORAl7YhYgf9tEndMXnM5CuEEhecIRfFLwIBm9vmcxUOwdpWRQ0xGDmD+zFl1m9ja6Mzhx6lZfljlNcNEM2Q3pQra0N7SydgobEdomkfzpGR6yKquje9kPfQ6Nllro8mAyk= ; Received: from unknown (HELO napoleon.local) (mike.jeays@99.224.75.182 with login) by smtp121.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 2008 02:07:59 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: I1Do86cVM1k3LYT3ZlExT3_WW6ZxoUzPKfeXovu8tsAtRes5ppLfboH7A1Ixv6QSjw-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Mike Jeays To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:07:58 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811062107.58367.mike.jeays@rogers.com> Cc: Subject: Firewire problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:34:41 -0000 I bought a PCI/Firewire card and cable, and used it to connect my Sony PV-GS80 camcorder, which uses MiniDV tapes and has a Firewire socket. I get the following messages in /var/log/messages, which suggest the Firewire card may be a bad one. # Turn camera on Nov 6 20:40:00 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: txd err= 0 No stat Nov 6 20:40:00 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: unrecoverable error Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=3, non CYCLEMASTER mode Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: txd err= 0 No stat Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 Nov 6 20:40:01 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: unrecoverable error # Try running kino Nov 6 20:40:56 pcbsd kernel: pid 8206 (kino), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 # Turn camera off Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: too many cycle lost, no cycle master presents? Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=4, CYCLEMASTER mode Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me) Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: firewire0: bus manager 0 (me) Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fwohci0: unrecoverable error Nov 6 20:46:21 pcbsd kernel: fw_xfer_free FWXF_START Kino segfaults when I press the 'Capture' button. This is with PC-BSD 7.0 on a test machine. I have a similar lack of success on a Linux machine, with the same card. Should I buy a new card, or is there anything else worth trying first? -- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca