Firewire and YDL 3.0

[Norberto Quintanar]

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_2.3/firewire_disks.shtml

Read line number 3 

It still applies to YDL 3.0 

--- Derick Centeno <aguila@macol.net> wrote:
> 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...
> -- 
> Light flashing against Sky and Earth.
> Thoughts/Swords.
> Life's spark reborn.
> 
> Carpe Diem
> 
> Be well.
> 
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> 
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