Re: server hangs for a few seconds...

"Because of FireWire’s hot-pluggable nature, the FireWire bus is by no means static. A bus reset occurs whenever nodes appear or disappear or when software initiates it. A bus reset signal erases the current topology of the bus and forces the nodes to reidentify and reconnect themselves. Although much of the logic to handle bus resets is at the device firmware level, your application must be ready to manage the affects of a bus reset at any point. In some cases, this may mean setting a flag in a command that requests it to retry after a bus reset. In others, however, you may have to perform significant device reconfiguration tasks in order to continue processing data"