Firewire drive issues

[Brian Turner]

On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Kai Staats wrote:

> 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

No references to sda or sdb in either of those logs.
I am going to try my osX install CD later today and see if it can see  
the drive. That will tell me if the hardware is functional.

Brian