Subject: Firewire and YDL 3.0

[R. Hirschfeld]

> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 13:08:47 -0400
> From: Derick Centeno <aguila@macol.net>

> 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?

Firewire drives are mapped to the SCSI device files.

> 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 believe this is what you see if you use HFS to access an HFS+
filesystem (also from MacOS prior to 8.1), although I thought the name
of the file was Where_have_all_my_files_gone?  Take a look at the
contents of that file.

Ray