[mythtv-users] firewire issues

[Gabe Rubin]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Gabe Rubin <gaberubin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am having issues with reliability from firewire captures these days
>> running fedora 12.
>>
>> I looked in dmesg and have the following line spammed for a bunch of it:
>>
>> "firewire_core: Unsolicited response (source ffc0, tlabel 3c)"  The
>> portion after tlabel varies.
>
> I believe that means the cable box is still sending data after the
> host has said 'please stop'.
>
>> Any idea what could be going on here?
>
> Maybe. Is that a DCT-6200 cable box? The upstream firewire maintainer
> mentioned a DCT-6200-specific quirk to me on irc today, which needed a
> work-around in the driver added...
>

It is a DCT-6200 (or some close variant to that).  I have not had
these type of reliability issues in quite some time (only the
occasional missed recording), so unsure why it is all of a sudden
popping up.