Firewire enclosure doesn't work in 3.0.1

[Gavin Hemphill]

Well I'm running YDL (bootable) on three enclosures based on the Oxford 
chip set (some with the firmware updated to work with Panther) so its 
unlikely to be the chip set.  you fail to mention your kernel version, 
the hardware you're running on, the enclosure type etc. so I can't offer 
specific help, but if you search for the firewire howto on the yellowdog 
site you can probably figure out what you need.

Michael George wrote:

> I just got a firewire enclosure for a 20Gb HDD I have.  I've use the HDD 
> several times and never had trouble with it.
> 
> When I plug the firewire beastie into my system running OSX, it 
> complains that it doesn't recognize the format and asks if I want to 
> initialize it.  Fine, but I don't want to...
> 
> So I boot into YDL 3.0.1 (where I *do* plan to use it) and plug it in 
> and... nothing.
> 
> I boot w/o it turned on and then fire it up when the system is booted.  
> I then manually load the ieee1394, ohci1394, and sbp2 kernel modules.  
> They all load fine, but I get a complaint about "non-standard ROM 
> format" and the drive is never connected to my system (as scsi1) like my 
> Glyph enclosed drives were.
> 
> The enclosure had an Oxford OSFW911 1394a-to-IDE link controller and a 
> TI TSB41AB2 1394a PHY (whatever that is).  Is either of these chipsets 
> known to be bad?
> 
> I remember that there's a jumper (set for Master, I'd guess) on the 
> drive still...  would that make a difference?  I'm trying to determine 
> if I have a legitimate complaint to return the enclosure...
> 
> If anyone has any info, I'd sure appreciate it!
> 
> Thanks!
> -Michael
> 
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