firewire/ieee1394 on blue-and-white g3

[bruce woller]

Hey Matt:
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Matt Price wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been trying to get an external firewire drive to work with my
> blue and white g3.  I noticed an earlier thred on a similar topic
> seemed to sort of peter out without any reported successes, so I
> thought I'd ask whether ahyone had had any success with a similar
> configuration.
Well yes and no and maybe kinda.  I have the same setup as you do 
except I also have two 18G U160 SCSI drives stuck in there too and a 
secondary SCSI host with a scanner hanging on it.   I saw your post 
about the benh kernel and thought I'd give that a try.  So I did a 
resync with his mirror.  I built the kernel using a copy of the .config 
file from 2.4.208d kernel supplied by YD with I2C bit banging and TI 
PCI Lynx enabled as modules (and the hack bit set in 
/etc/modules.conf).  Note I did *not* use the latest ieee1394 code but 
left whatever ben had in his mirror.  It booted!  Also the light on my 
Smartdisk Firewire CD-RW blinked during boot!  rescanscsibus.sh 
actually discovered the drive and added it to fstab.  This is all new 
to me.  gscanbus shows the drive.  Weirdness here - plugging and 
unplugging the FW cable causes the device to *sometimes* appear on the 
top of the pictogram and *sometimes* on the bottom (see Bill Fink's 
comments about this),  Things were looking good so I tried xcdroast.  
He found the drive and added it as the burn to device.  Well let's burn 
one!  No cigar here (pun intended).  Xcdroast read the music CD from my 
built in IDE cdrom but when I tried to burn it he tried and tried for 
about 10 minutes and then gave up with errors regarding SCSI ioctls and 
admonished me for maybe not being root (even though I was).  Of course 
I continued poking it and things went downhill from there.  (I suspect 
firewire isn't completely stable yet in the PPC Linux domain).

So that is my firewire story for today.  Let me know what progress you 
make.  In the meantime I'll keep using iTunes to make my CDs and 
praying that I don't mistakenly rm -rf * my Linux HD - because I have 
no backup - yikes!

Regards,
Bruce
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