iMac, 160G Maxtor Firewire

[JHSJ]

After a disappointing few months with OS eX, I recently installed
YDL 2.2.  But it doesn't seem to recognize my firewire hard drives. 
 Here's the detail:

Early 2001 (Dalmation) iMac 500mhz 192mb ram, 120G IBM internal HD 
and 2 160G Maxtor firewire drives, formatted as HFS, connected to 
the built in firewire ports.  

Standard YDL 2.2 (Complete) install
Updated kernel to 2.4.19-pre9, using the "special" kernel, 
precompiled and optimized for the CRT iMac (on ppckernel.org)

lsmod shows that these are all loaded:

ieee1394
ohci1394
sbp2

But when I do:

pdisk -l /dev/sda

I get nothing.but "/dev/sda: no such device or address"
A quick look at  /dev  showed me that sda is there.
I also tried pdisk -l /dev/sda1, and 2 etc, but still no luck.

So I looked at dmesg and it says this:

ohci1394: $Revision: 1.101 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[40]  MMIO=[f5000000-f5001000] 
 Max Packet=[2048]
ohci1394_0: Received OHCI evt_* error 0x3
scsi1 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: ohci1394)
SBP-2 module load options:
- Max speed supported: S400
- Max sectors per I/O supported: 255
- Max outstanding commands supported: 8
- Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
- Serialized I/O (debug): no
ohci1394_0: Unexpected tcode 0xf(0x6001c1ff) in AR ctx=0, 
length=-1: dma prg stopped
ieee1394: ConfigROM quadlet transaction error for node 00:1023
ieee1394: Host added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[00000000febc510e]  [Linux 
OHCI-1394]
ieee1394: ConfigROM quadlet transaction error for node 02:1023
i2c-core.o: i2c core module

I googled for hours and I can't find a thing adressing this 
specifically.  I did find a utility called "mntfw" that tries to 
remount a drive until it gets recognized, but that doesn't help.

So I'm at a loss.  I'm quite excited about this YDL release, I'm 
going to be using it as my home/work machine, and I really need 
access to those 2 Maxtor 160G Firewire HFS-formatted drives.

Any suggestions?  Does anyone have this working on a similar setup?
Thanks,

Jeff

Jeffrey P. Hergan, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Philosophy
Saint Xavier University
Chicago