Firewire drive issues

Kai Staats kstaats at terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed Mar 22 09:24:04 MST 2006


On Tuesday 21 March 2006 17:04, Brian Turner wrote:
> I have YDL 4.0.1 and a Blue&White G3
>
> Hooked up a firewire drive formatted as a Dos fat32 volume and rebooted.
> It didn't recognize the drive. pdisk does not see it. I checked both
> sda and sdb. The 1394 drivers seem to be there.
> Gnome sees the firewire bus but no drives in Hardware Browser.
>
> I'm not sure where to give it a poke.

Run:

	tail -f /var/log/messages

... or look in dmesg and see if there is reference to /dev/sda/

kai


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