Keyspan USB2 + Firewire Card (PCI)
David C. Hacker, DVM
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Fri, 20 Aug 2004 21:38:49 -0400
I don't suppose your hard drive is one of those that has both a USB and
a Firewire connector huh??
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Aug 20, 2004, at 8:49 PM, Arch and Cath wrote:
> 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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