how to access external firewire HDD

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 12:19, 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).

[BIG SNIP]

frankly, I don't see anything that might indicate that it's recognised.
All I'm seeing in the dmesg is your 1394 device is 'sort-of' detected but it's not 
assigned a partition.

What does 

cat /proc/partition states?

if 1394 is anything like USB, can you do a 

tail -f /var/log/messages 

and then plug the HDD into the slot and email back on the output.