Firewire

[canix]

Do Firewire disks work in Fedora?

When I attach a FW disk, I don't see the message stating which device the disk is available as (and which partitions are available).

All I get is:
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device
scsi : 3 hosts left.
sbp2: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
blk: queue f5266c18, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]

Any thoughts?

[Avatraxiom]

Well, it looks like the driver is seeing the device. (That's a guess, from that log output.) So that's good.

Do you know what devices FW things usually are? That should be around the net, probably if you search for "/dev" and "firewire."

-M

[canix]

Having had a read around on www.linux1394.org, I've downloaded the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script. Runnig this causes /dev/sda to be attached to the 1394 HDD. Don't yet understand why this is needed, RH9 doesn't have the script and copes with the attachment of the SCSI device files. Roll on 2.6 (the hotplug SCSI stuff has been revamped apparently).