On my Redhat 8 box I got my firewire drive to work by doing pretty much is said below. I am not sure this is the "right" way to do it but it worked for me. ran each of these commands in this order /sbin/insmod ieee1394 /sbin/insmod ohci1394 /sbin/insmod raw1394 /usr/local/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh mount /dev/sda5 /data (you can mount where ever you need to mount) I got the rescan-scsi-bus.sh from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh i did a quick tail on my log file with this command: tail -100 /var/log/messages|grep scsi This produced: Dec 31 08:26:06 reddot kernel: scsi singledevice 0 0 7 0 Dec 31 08:26:06 reddot kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 0 0 Dec 31 08:26:06 reddot kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 31 08:26:06 reddot kernel: scsi singledevice 1 0 1 0 now i know that the firewire drive is "sda". From this point i can now create the fdisk it and create the file system. Once the file system is created/formated you can add the first group of 5 commands to your rc.local (boot.local on SuSE). Scott Linux World 999 wrote:
Found a post on this list dated 24 Oct 2002 by Josef Demergis. After booting, the following two commands have to run:
1) modprobe ieee1394 2) modprobe ohci 1394.
The firewire drive is then visible and can be mounted.
Follwing the guidance from another post, the "boot.local" file was edited and the following commands added:
modprobe ieee1394 modprobe ohci 1394 modprobe raw1394
Line was added to fstab file to mount /dev/sdb4 to /media/sdb4.
This does not work. Any ideas how to amend the configuration files so that after the boot process the firewire drive is mounted and ready for use?
On Monday 30 December 2002 20:01, Linux World 999 wrote:
A firewire PCI host adapter is attached to a PC running SuSE 8.1. The controller has been detected by SuSE. An Iomega Perless firewire drive is attached to the controller but cannot be accessed. During the boot process, the lights flash and stay on while the PC is switched.
On another PC, which is a Toshiba laptop, with a PCMCIA firewire adapter the drive is automatically recognised and ready for use using Linux.
Can anyone offer any assistance to install the drive on the first PC?