Re: firewire 800 trouble

Fred,

Thanks for the reply. I guess this raises a couple of questions. First,
do I need to upgrade to kernel 2.6.* to possibly get this working? I'm
hesitant to do this b/c this is a computational node that needs to be
quite stable. Is there any advantage of upgrading to a later 2.4.27
kernel? Presently, I'm using 2.4.24.

Second, if the rescan script doesn't pick up the new sd device, what would
you recommend for finding and testing it? I've tried gscanbus and it
seems to do nothing. When I try killing it, the computer hangs and needs
to be hard rebooted. I've even tried using fdisk and hdparm on an
assortment of devices to see if it is there:
         $ fdisk -l /dev/sd?

I haven't found anything this way. Again, I don't get any message when I
plug and unplug the firewire, so I assume this means that it is not
recognizing the disk.

Some more hardware specs:
Lacie Big Disk, OXFW912 bridge chipset
Lacie firewire 800 pci card, ?? chipset

Thanks for the help.

Best,
Alexis

  On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, F. Heitkamp wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Alexis Zubrow wrote:
>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I am having trouble seeing my Lacie BigDisk when I try and connect it via
>> firewire 800. I tried plugging and unplugging the disk and get no messages
>> in my dmesg. I've loaded the following modules: raw1394, ieee1394,
>> ohci1394,
>
> I probably shouldn't butt in here but I am using kernel 2.6.10-rc2. I have
> debug message for firewire turned on. I have finally got my firewire 800
> card to work as I posted in a previous message. (Actually I did not get it
> to work. The fine folks working the kernel and drivers did.) Anyway, these
> are the messages I get when loading ohci1394, sbp2, and raw1394 etc. below.
> My external FW800 box has the oxford 922 chip set. I have another external
> box that does not appear to work with the linux 1394 no way, no how and I've
> tried every combination of 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, FW cards etc. That box has
> two chips: OXFW911-TQ-A-0143 and RTL8801 1517951 122J. AFAIK it could be a
> problem with the 400 port because that box is a FW400 but the FW400 port
> works with another device. Both of these boxes work fine mostly with Windows
> and Macintosh. I have a Belkin card that BSOD's with W2K and the Oxford 911
> box with a 60GB hard drive formated on a Macintosh contained. The point I
> think I am making is that the combination seems to make a big difference.
> Also even though the FW800 box is recognized it does not show up using the
> rescan-scsi-bus.sh script. I have also have a ZIP 750 FW that will not work
> with Linux without an AC adapter. Evidently, the Linux FW drivers do not
> support devices that need power over the FW cable. I hope you get some hints
> from this post.
>
> Fred
>

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