1394 debug tip

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1

I’ve seen several people mention that they disable the 1394 adapter on the
target system to make 1394 debugging more reliable. I’ve never had to do
that, and I think I might have discovered why. When I first plugged in the
1394 adapters, XP helpfully displayed some 1394 networking dialogs which I
have long since forgotten. Not wanting to deal with that stuff at all, I
promptly disabled the 1394 Net Adapter in the device manager on both
systems, and then forgot about that. Since I was using the 1394 adapter to
access a peripheral, as well as the debugging transport, disabling the
adapter didn’t even occur to me.

So the bottom line is that 1394 *may* be just as reliable by only disabling
the 1394 net adapters, though your mileage may vary, of course.

Phil

Philip D. Barila
Seagate Technology, LLC
(720) 684-1842

2

This is still a myth to me.
I tried all kinds of tricks and 1394 would sometimes work on one model but fail on the other models.
Any tips would be appreciated.

– Kenny

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Barila [mailto:xxxxx@Seagate.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 11:42 AM
To: Kernel Debugging Interest List
Subject: [windbg] 1394 debug tip

I’ve seen several people mention that they disable the 1394
adapter on the
target system to make 1394 debugging more reliable. I’ve
never had to do
that, and I think I might have discovered why. When I first
plugged in the
1394 adapters, XP helpfully displayed some 1394 networking
dialogs which I
have long since forgotten. Not wanting to deal with that
stuff at all, I
promptly disabled the 1394 Net Adapter in the device manager on both
systems, and then forgot about that. Since I was using the
1394 adapter to
access a peripheral, as well as the debugging transport, disabling the
adapter didn’t even occur to me.

So the bottom line is that 1394 *may* be just as reliable by
only disabling
the 1394 net adapters, though your mileage may vary, of course.

Phil

Philip D. Barila
Seagate Technology, LLC
(720) 684-1842

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