Fixed problems day
Feb. 15th, 2005 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pvaneyndThe thinkpad got repaired. It still does not see the PCMCIA cards I insert, but at least the DVD works again.
Yesterday I had to restore a file for my wife and the firewire drive also br0ke in XP. So I searched and on this page was a discussion of this bug. It seems the PL3507 controller has a history of "issues". In XP you get a delayed write failure. In Linux just tries to reset the drive and fails. At this location there is an updated firmware (it can also be found at the site of the manufacturer, but that is a JavaScript hell).
Anyway I updated the firmware and now it "just works"! :-)
Now to restore the thinkpad from my backups...
Yesterday I had to restore a file for my wife and the firewire drive also br0ke in XP. So I searched and on this page was a discussion of this bug. It seems the PL3507 controller has a history of "issues". In XP you get a delayed write failure. In Linux just tries to reset the drive and fails. At this location there is an updated firmware (it can also be found at the site of the manufacturer, but that is a JavaScript hell).
Anyway I updated the firmware and now it "just works"! :-)
Now to restore the thinkpad from my backups...
