Keyspan USB2 + Firewire Card (PCI)

[Arch and Cath]

Thanks David,

I have gone through the /var/log/messages and a /dev/sd is never mentioned.
I think that there is a problem with the PCI card.   I Googled it this
afternoon and there evidently has been a problem with combined USB/firewire
cards operating under linux.   Doing some random checks through the Linux
1384 hardware compatibility site (7-pages) I haven't been able to find any
combined cards.    

I am going to have to rethink my hardware configuration.   At the moment, I
don't have another PCI slot available to use separate USB and Firewire
cards.   I primarily need the firewire drive for mol because that is where
all of my Mac stuff is.

If anyone knows of a Linux compatible USB/Firewire PCI card please let me
know.

Regards,
Arch

on 8/20/04 7:19 PM, David C. Hacker, DVM at dhacker@intrstar.net wrote:

> Try reading /var/log/messages and see if you see it detecting the hard
> drive and giving it a device like /dev/sd??  If so make a mount point
> directory like /mnt/firewire and try mount /dev/sd?? /mnt/firewire and
> see if that will work.  If it is being detected at all it will show up
> in the boot messages.  I am not sure how firewire drives work.  I know
> for USB drives you have to load usb-mass storage module.  Maybe there
> is something similar for firewire.
> Good luck and sorry I didn't write back sooner.
> David C. Hacker, DVM
> On Aug 17, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Arch and Cath wrote:
> 
>> David is right the driver appears to be ohci1394.o.  Just to be sure I
>> used
>> insmod and loaded ieee1394.o, confirmed initio.o (SCSI) and added
>> advansys.o
>> (also SCSI).  I also tried to load some pci modules but got back a
>> message
>> that they were not ELF files.    On boot up there is a message that
>> says
>> "firewire initiated".
>> 
>> I am using a Keyspan USB2 + Firewire card.   The card works for my USB
>> printer.  This is what /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices looks like for my PCI
>> firewire port:
>> 
>> Node[0-01:1023]  GUID[006001cd000008d5]:
>> Vendor ID: `Linux OHCI-1394' [0x00004c]
>> Capabilities: 0x0083c0
>> Bus Options:
>> IRMC(1) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
>> LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) CYC_CLK_ACC(0)
>> Host Node Status:
>> Host Driver     : ohci1394
>> Nodes connected : 2
>> Nodes active    : 2
>> SelfIDs received: 2
>> Irm ID          : [0-01:1023]
>> BusMgr ID       : [0-63:1023]
>> In Bus Reset    : no
>> Root            : yes
>> Cycle Master    : yes
>> IRM             : yes
>> Bus Manager     : no
>> 
>> 
>> I got a test procedure "IEEE 1394 Linux Drivers" from vidredesign.com
>> and my
>> system appears to pass all of their tests.     I added the suggested
>> above
>> and option statements to /etc/modules.conf.  Unfortunately the Firewire
>> 120GB HD has yet to appear.   Neither pdisk or fdisk have found it.
>> 
>> Do I have to put it in fstab.   I tried and guessed that it was
>> /dev/sdd,
>> and added /mnt/APPLICATIONS which is the name of the first partition
>> and
>> made it rw,noauto,users 00.  Didn't work.
>> 
>> If it isn't fstab is there some other .conf file that needs to be
>> completed
>> for my firewire drive to work?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Arch
>> 
>> on 8/15/04 3:39 PM, David C. Hacker, DVM at dhacker@intrstar.net wrote:
>> 
>>> On Aug 15, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Arch and Cath wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks to all of you I now have mol up and working.   It does not see
>>>> my
>>> It's about time.  Congratulations.
>>>> firewire 120GB disc -- but neither does Linux so that is the next
>>> and what
>>>> am I
>>>> looking for.    I understand that Linux uses scsi emulation for
>>>> firewire --
>>>> does that mean it will turn up as /dev/sdx something?   Does that
>>>> /dev/ have
>>>> to go in fstab?
>>> 
>>> Yes it should show up as /dev/sd??.  Take a look in
>>> /lib/modules/2.4.22-2g and see what firewire modules are available.  I
>>> think the base one is ohci1394.  Also you need to have the scsi
>>> modules
>>> loaded.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> At this point, I just need some clues about where to look and for
>>>> what.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks again,
>>>> 
>>>> Arch
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