firewire drive...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I am using an external firewire drive (maxtor). I am running rh9 with kernel 2.4.30. I am able to load ohci1394 and sbp2 module. When I do a dmesg, I do not see any instance of sd? bieng recognize by the system. Also did fdisk -l, no instance of firewire drive. Any idea? Thanks.

[Gopi Sekar]

did you try rebooting the system once. Linux 2.4 is not so good in detecting hot plug&play devices.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

[Steven E. Protter]

If it doesn't auto detect, try the 2.6 kernel.

Otherwise out of luck.

SEP

[renarios]

What's in your boot.log? If no errors appear, listen to "uncle Steven" and upgrade your kernel.

Good luck,

Renarios

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

Do You have a scsi disk driver module loaded?

I stumbled over this a few weeks ago when using an USB stick, linux also showed my the usb, but not the mass storage device until I modprobed the additional driver.

[Hank Ratzesberger]

Using the directions from
http://www.linux1394.org/
I ran their rescan-scsi-bus.sh script before the device was mapped to a scsi device. Link to the script on this page:
http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.php
OK, I have attached it.

[K.C. Chan]

it works when I added entry into scsi dir under /proc, but why? why does one have to do this?, why can't it work when the module is loaded? It works on a redhat standard kernel, but when I roll my own (2.4.30) with proper modules loaded, it needed the extra mile just to get it to see the maxter firewire drive. Any idea? Thanks.