Have *you* disabled Firewire?

[Andrew Reilly]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 01:15:14AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
> I'm seeing evidence that the Firewire stack has been problematic for a
> small, but growing set of users out there.  I see from a perusal of the
> mailing lists, that some users are disabling their Firewire stack after
> they cannot boot or install FreeBSD.  This usually is due to a panic
> preceded by the message:"
> 	"run_interrupt_driven_hooks - waiting for xpt_config"
> 
> This log message was added in the past to provide a diagnostic
> indication of a failure.  
> 
> If you are one of these folks who have disabled their Firewire driver,
> please let me know.  Also get me the following:
> 	Full boot dmesg output (bootverbose)
> 	Can you load "firewire"?(in kernel? after boot via module?)
> 	Can you load "sbp"?(in kernel? after boot via module?)
> 	*anything* else you might thing is relevant?

I get the xpt_config waits, but I have not disabled firewire: I
just work around the problem by manually disconnecting the
external drive in question and re-attaching it after the boot
has failed and falled into single-user mode.  It seems to work
fine for post-boot arrival.

Want my bootverbose logs?  (I think that I posted them before,
the first time around, but can probably make a new set.)

Also: this does seem to be a race condition kind of thing,
because in the intervening time I *have* had at least one
successful, hands-off boot.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew