[NTLUG:Discuss] Firewire and RH9

[David Wilson]

I would like to thank everyone for their help with the
firewire issue.  

I ended up re-compliling the kernel and using the
script to re-scan the scsi bus and now it works.

Thanks again

David

--- MontyS at videopost.com wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Wilson [mailto:drindles at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: discuss at ntlug.org
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Firewire and RH9
> 
> I am trying to use an external firewire hard drive
> with RH9 and am having some difficulty.  I can see
> in
> dmesg where it sees the Maxtor drive but it never
> assigns it a device such as sda or sdb. 
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
> BTW Kernel 2.4.20-20.9
> 
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> Dave,
> 
> Your posting prompted me to attempt to attach a
> firewire drive I had
> hanging around to my linux box.  It was successful.
> 
> I am using a LaCie firewire drive, which is actually
> a seagate drive in
> a nice box.
> 
> The steps listed below assume that you don't
> currently have a scsi
> device installed on your box.
> 
> If you do an <lsmod>, you need to make sure you have
> the following
> modules:
> 
> ohci1394               20136   0  (unused)
> ieee1394               48748   0  [sbp2 ohci1394]
> sbp2
> sd_mod                 13452   2
> scsi_mod              107512   3  [sbp2 dpt_i2o
> sd_mod]
> 
> My install is a stock redhat 9.0 install.  My kernel
> is 2.4.20-19.9.  I
> had my firewire controller installed before I loaded
> linux.
> 
> If you don't have these modules listed, then you
> will have to add them to
> your
> kernel.  Unfortunately I have only used <rpm> for
> most of my installs,
> and don't feel comfortable walking anyone through
> any kernel
> modifications.
> 
> If you do a <cat /proc/scsi/scsi> and find nothing,
> then you need to run
> the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script that can be downloaded
> from
> http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html.
> 
> After you run the script, try to run <cat
> /proc/scsi/scsi> again.  If
> things worked out right, then you should see some
> data in the output,
> similar to this:
> 
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: ST316002 Model: 1A               Rev: 3.06
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI
> revision: 06
> 
> At this point, you should be able to do an <fdisk
> /dev/sda> and play the
> partition game however you want to.  After <fdisk>,
> run <mkfs.ext3> to
> write the filesystem on whichever
> partition/partitions you wish.  I just
> used one
> partition, so my <df -h> for the firewire drive
> looks like this:
> 
> /dev/sda              147G  1.8G  138G   2%
> /firewire_1
> 
> I tried to enter this drive in /etc/fstab, but it
> didn't work.  I found
> out that you have to run the <rescan-scsi-bus.sh>
> script and <mount>
> command every time you reboot.  To get around this,
> I edited the
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to run those 2 commands
> during bootup.
> 
> Hope this helps you out.
> 
> Good luck, and as always, YMMV.
> 
> Monty
> 
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