On Tuesday 31 December 2002 13:43, Junk Account - HaHaHa wrote:
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)
After a lot of trial and error using modprobe ieee1394 modprobe ohci 1394 modprobe spb2 gave indiffereent results. The drive was recognised about 40% of the time and not the rest. SuSE 8.1 tries to load some drivers during the hardware recognition but not all. After a cold boot, running "lsmode | grep 1394" gave the following results: ohci1394 [unused] ieee1394 [ohci1394] Only the command "modprobe sbp2" needs to be run followed by the mount command. Not being a Linux or ieee1394 expert, re-loading the ieee1394 and ohci1394 drives a second time causes problems in recognising the drive. Running spb2 only recongnises the drive. Putting the modprobe commands in boot.local did not help. Does anyone advise in which boot script the "modprobe sbp2" command so that is the last command before logging into linux? <snip>