Firewire and YDL 3.0

[Derick Centeno]

Has anyone out there run into the situation as I describe it here?
I resurrected an internal old 4G IDE HD (the original HD in the Beige 
G3 Minitower) and install it into a external housing turning it into 
a Firewire drive.  Mac OS 9.2 reads the thing fine, even Mac OS 8.6 
reads the Firewire drive without difficulty.

However, pdisk reports the Firewire drive as existing on /dev/sdb; 
isn't that reserved for scsi drives?  Doesn't Red Hat Linux know yet 
how to distinguish Firewire drives?

As a test I decided to put some files onto the Firewire drive which I 
would immediately recognize when viewed from Linux.  When I finally 
mounted the drive which pdisk told me was /dev/sdb5, a string of 
unknown files appeared along with the following string, - without the 
quotes -"Where_are_my _files?"

I thought that was absolutely cute.  It didn't tell me anything, but 
I thought it was cute.  If the phrase does have a meaning, by all 
means drop a line and let me know; I think Linux was trying to make 
sense of something which made no sense to it.

This information is useful in helping me, and probably others keep in 
mind just how much a work-in-progress Linux really is.  It will be 
interesting to discover what others believe is going on.  Your turn 
folks...
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