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External Firewire Hard Drive locking up machine

I have added an external firewire hard drive to my RedHat 9 machine. I was hoping to use this with rsync in order to perform nightly backups of my important data. While I was able to get the drive up and running without a problem, I am having issues copying files to it. Since the drive is empty, I wanted to copy over all the data first, this is about 70 gigs worth. The copy started off fine, but after about 10 minutes, my entire machine locks up. After a reboot, the drive was up and some of the data there. I again tried to copy over files, and the same thing happened.

It seems like I can copy small files over to it without a problem, but if I do a bulk load of files, it will lock up the system after a while. I have ran up2date on the machine, and running all the lastest RH stuff.

I took the firewire card and drive to a windoz machine and everything copies back and forth without a problem, so I am leaning to RH. Just not sure what else to look at for a fix.

Rob

linux_geek

can you post the output of
>tail -f /var/log/messages
>dmesg
>lsmod

(you'lll need to run them as root)

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linux_geek

Have you solved your problem?

linux_geek

Are you using a firewire PC card or onboard?
What sort of firewire interface do you have - chip type?

Have you tried downloading latest ieee drivers from your distro vendor?

Accept an answer please :)