Firewire problem

[Mike Jeays]

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