how to access external firewire HDD

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Tue May 25 21:01:14 UTC 2004



On Tue, 25 May 2004, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:

> On Tue, 25 May 2004, Patrick Geremia wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to know how I can access my external firewire HDD in FC1
>> (HDD mounted in a PYRO 1394 derive kit).
>>
>> Any help is much appreciated. Thanks
>> Patrick
>>
>> PS: Below the output of dmesg command as it looks like this information
>> is often requested.
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> <snip>
>
> Firewire's been disabled in the FC2 kernel due to problems.  Hopefully the
> kernel team upstream will fix it and get a patch to the distro kernel
> teams so that firewire will work again soon.

The initial question was about FC1. And for FC2 there is now a 'test'
kernel that has firewire enabled..

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg02494.html

Satish





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