Firewire hard drives

Firewire hard drives

[Caleb Gibbs]

Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard drive to mount?
my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the firewire hub and works great with 
my usb devices but when I plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I 
can`t mount it.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Caleb

Re: Firewire hard drives

[John Stoffel]

Caleb> Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard
Caleb> drive to mount?  my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the
Caleb> firewire hub and works great with my usb devices but when I
Caleb> plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I can`t mount
Caleb> it.

I've been having problems too with these devices.  I've been trying
with a dual interface USB2.0/Firewire box with a Prolific Technology
chipset.  This is with 2.6.[678]-* kernels of various types.  I can do
a mkfs under either USB2 or Firewire connections (both ports are on
the same Adaptec PCI card) but the firewire sides bombs out much
quicker.  

I've just found some issues with Device Mapper and MD that I wonder
might be causing some issues here, but if I use the USB side, I get
full system lockups at points which are not fun, while on the Firewire
side I get tons of errors and the device (drive and case) just lock up
completely.  Takes a power cycles and a couple of un-plugs to get it
working again under Firewire.  

I've filed a bug report with the linux-ieee1394 folks, but I haven't
had a chance to look into it yet to provide more info if they've
requested it.

Sorry, not much else to report here, but I'd certainly like to help out.

John

Re: Firewire hard drives

[Måns Rullgård]

"John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com> writes:

> Caleb> Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard
> Caleb> drive to mount?  my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the
> Caleb> firewire hub and works great with my usb devices but when I
> Caleb> plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I can`t mount
> Caleb> it.
>
> I've been having problems too with these devices.  I've been trying
> with a dual interface USB2.0/Firewire box with a Prolific Technology
> chipset.  This is with 2.6.[678]-* kernels of various types.  I can do
> a mkfs under either USB2 or Firewire connections (both ports are on
> the same Adaptec PCI card) but the firewire sides bombs out much
> quicker.  

Try giving the sbp2 module the option serialize_io=1.  It helped get
my firewire case running.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se

Re: Firewire hard drives

[John Stoffel]

>>>>> "Måns" == Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se> writes:

Måns> Try giving the sbp2 module the option serialize_io=1.  It helped get
Måns> my firewire case running.

Thanks for the hint.  I'll try that and see how it goes.
Unfortunately, it's at home on USB currently... :] 

Re: Firewire hard drives

[Erik Steffl]

John Stoffel wrote:
> Caleb> Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard
> Caleb> drive to mount?  my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the
> Caleb> firewire hub and works great with my usb devices but when I
> Caleb> plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I can`t mount
> Caleb> it.

   (sorry, missed the original post)

   I am using iPod as firewire disk, works fairly OK except of: sometime 
it gets into state when system does not recognize the new SCSI disk (it 
looks like SCSI disk) and nothing helps (unloading modules, 
disconnecting the device etc.), didn't investigate enough to figure out 
why (firewire drivers recognize the device but rescanning scsi doesn't 
find the disk), only reboot helps (out of the options I tried). This is 
not a bug report, just FYI, I don't have enough details to actually ask 
for help...

	erik

Re: Firewire hard drives

[Raf D'Halleweyn (list)]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:41 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> John Stoffel wrote:
> > Caleb> Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard
> > Caleb> drive to mount?  my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the
> > Caleb> firewire hub and works great with my usb devices but when I
> > Caleb> plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I can`t mount
> > Caleb> it.
> 
>    (sorry, missed the original post)
> 
>    I am using iPod as firewire disk, works fairly OK except of: sometime 
> it gets into state when system does not recognize the new SCSI disk (it 
> looks like SCSI disk) and nothing helps (unloading modules, 
> disconnecting the device etc.), didn't investigate enough to figure out 
> why (firewire drivers recognize the device but rescanning scsi doesn't 
> find the disk), only reboot helps (out of the options I tried). This is 
> not a bug report, just FYI, I don't have enough details to actually ask 
> for help...

When that happens, try to stop the iPod before you connect (i.e. press
play/pause for 5 seconds) or reboot the iPod (press Menu and play/pause
for 5 seconds).

At least, that works for me most of the times (not always).

Raf.