Keyspan USB2 + Firewire Card (PCI)
Arch and Cath
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Sat, 21 Aug 2004 08:12:40 -0400
David,
Unfortunately not -- two kinds of firewire but no USB.
Good idea though.
Thanks,
Arch
on 8/20/04 9:38 PM, David C. Hacker, DVM at dhacker@intrstar.net wrote:
> 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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