Re: Firewire and mobile cpu

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Max wrote:
> When the cpu is "on demand" mode (ie cpu clock can vary) and I try to write data to my harddrive connected via firewire, I get very quickly an I/O error.
> On the other hand, when I fix my cpu clock (I use the max speed), there is no I/O error and the access read or write through the firewire never fails.

I vaguely remember some older chipsets having problems with PowerNow.
What is your southbridge chip (see lspci)?


Regards,
Clemens