YDL 2.3 and Ext FW Drive

[Scott Burch]

I read Jeroen's great note about mounting a Firewire drive, but I have a 
problem: I cannot see the drive or its partition table using pdisk; but 
I can see the other two SCSI drives I am using. I am using an IBM 15GB 
DTLA-series drive in an external Coolmax Firewire enclosure. It 
partitioned fine under Mac OS9 using FWB's Hard Disk Tools -- a story 
about that follows -- and I created a Mac 1GB partition  and a 10 GB 
Apple_Unix_SVR2 partition . I reproduced the dmesg below so you can see 
the results. I plugged and unplugged the device and you can see that in 
the notes.

Another question: I set the jumpers on the IDE drive to slave under a 
"16 head" configuration. Is that correct?

The FWB story: when I first booted the Firewire drive, the OS 9 on the 
9500 I am using wanted to initialize the drive. I elected to do that -- 
I should selected "eject" -- and was stuck with a 2 GB partition that I 
could not remove with Hard Disk Tools [HDT] v.4, Apple's Drive Set-up, 
or even Atto Express RAID. HDT has a utility called Firewire Loader that 
was supposed to blow away the stock Apple driver and replace it with an 
FWB driver. It would not. I wrote a note to the tech support at FWB. 
They replied later that same day -- a very cool tech guy! -- by sending 
v.4.5 of Firewire Loader. It replaced the Apple driver and the drive 
behaves the way it should.

Hardware notes: Mac 9500, 300 MB RAM, YDL 2.3., Macally PCI Firewire 
card in the uppermost slot, two internal SCSI drives that report as 
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb.  The root folder is on /dev/sdb [4 GB Seagate]  
and /dev/sda [ 350 MB Quantum] strictly holds only Mac OS 9 for booting.

thanks  ##  scott

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ohci1394: $Revision: 1.101 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[23]  MMIO=[80800000-80800800]  Max 
Packet=[2048]
scsi3 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: ohci1394)
SBP-2 module load options:
- Max speed supported: S400
- Max sectors per I/O supported: 255
- Max outstanding commands supported: 8
- Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
- Serialized I/O (debug): no
ohci1394_0: Received OHCI evt_* error 0x3
ieee1394: Host added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[0000000000007657]  [Linux 
OHCI-1394]
ieee1394: Node 01:1023 changed to 00:1023
ohci1394_0: Error in reception of SelfID packets [0x80030004/0x00039d6d] 
(count: 0)
ieee1394: Node 01:1023 has non-standard ROM format (0 quads), cannot parse
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Device added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[00000000000007b2]  [Oxford 
Semiconductor Lt
d.   ]
ieee1394: Device removed: Node[01:1023]  GUID[00000000000007b2]  [Oxford 
Semiconductor
Ltd.   ]
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device
ohci1394_0: Error in reception of SelfID packets [0x80080004/0x00089528] 
(count: 0)
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Device added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[00000000000007b2]  [Oxford 
Semiconductor Lt
d.   ]
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Jeroen Diederen wrote:

> look if the firewire HD is recognised, if not try unplugging and 
> plugging and do a dmesg again
>
> then, and only if it showed up:
>
> modprobe sbp2
>