Firewire help, please...

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Dylan:
I'll assume YDL 3 is working properly.  It does matter, in resolving  
this particular problem, whether your hardware is Old World or New  
World AND whether you are using BootX or yaboot.  The procedure to  
address this kind of problem is different according to which kind of  
hardware you are using.

However, after the above is determined you should as superuser run  
cdrecord and discover whether cdrecord sees the DVD at all.  If  
cdrecord cannot see the device, neither will the kernel.  The challenge  
is to load the get the kernel to load the correct driver so that  
cdrecord can see the device (as a just another device on the SCSI  
chain) and THEN you should be able to use it.

Some background reading material is available at:

http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/start/BootX+and+ide-scsi

and a reference leading to another website:

http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Updating+YDL/Doing+things+as+root/ 
A+referral+regarding+using+Modprobe%2C+Kerneld%2C+and+Insmod

When you get to http://www.linux-sxs.org./ make sure you read the links  
listed in the Bedtime Reading section.  Of course, that website is  
chock full of stuff, but it is not specific to YDL.  It is related to  
Linux however and it may give you a different foundation than just what  
is provided at the YDL FAQ site.

Should your system be New World you should be able to execute the  
ide-scsi driver as superuser from the command line or perhaps more  
convenient include the sequence "hda=ide-scsi" in a script or dot file  
so that it is executed everytime you login.  Of course, you will  
replace hda for whatever nomenclature your system utiliizes.

Best wishes....

On Apr 1, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Dylan wrote:

> I had a look in the archives and couldn't find anything....
> I have a Formac DVD-/+RW drive that connects via firewire.  I am  
> trying to configure YDL 3.0 to connect to it, but to no avail.  Has  
> anyone come across this or a similar problem?  Can anyone guide me to  
> a fix?  If anyone can, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dylan
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