John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 02:20, Koenraad Lelong wrote:
Hello, I just tried to access my new external HD, with a Firewire interface. I used document "Firewire (ieee1394) Drives under Linux" from SuSE, but I'm having troubles. Any other references I should read ?
Well, I'm not sure where you would start reading... What I did was to watch the messages /var/log/message as I plugged in the external drive. It will probably show up as a scsi disk sdb1 or something like that.
Then you can mount it (if there is data on it already) or partition it and make a file system on it. Yast will help with this. You may want to be sure hotplug services are running, and that firewire is one of the hotplug services set up. I had no particular problem with this in my laptop running 8.2.
Maybe that's the problem, I'm running 8.1. I "modprobe ohci1394", and then when I plug the device in, it's seen as /dev/sda with hwinfo --disk. But there I'm stuck. To test it I formatted it with Windows. Now I want to make an ext3 partition, but I can't, not with Yast, nor with fdisk. Yast displays : /dev/sda 114.4GB Y120L0 0 14945 /dev/sda1 114.5GB Linux native 0 14947 I can remove sda1, but I can't actually create a new partition. Yast says "Could not format partition /dev/sda1....". After this /dev/sda disappears from the partitioner. After a reboot, with the device plugged in, and issuing a "modprobe ohci1394" again (how do you do this automatically at boot ?), I have to plug the device out and back in to see it again. And /dev/sda1 is there again. Damn, now my system doesn't boot any more, only safe mode works. I hope I can fix this ! -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Koenraad Lelong R&D Manager ACE electronics n.v.