IEEE1394, SBP2 and External Firewire HDD

[Jared Smith]

[notes added below]

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 08:55, Vidyut Luther wrote:
> Hi, 
>  I tried to lookup anyone else who had the same problem as me with
> Severn and IEEE1394, I found the following message..
> 
>  http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00464.html
> 
> My problem is pretty much the same, I can not install Severn with the
> drive on, if I turn the drive off, I can get the installer to work.
> Once the installation is done, I can't boot into the box, until the 
> I turn the drive off again.
> 
I don't have this problem with my firewire CD burner... maybe it's only
specific brands/models/flavors?

> I did not have this problem with 9.0, but with Severn (all packages
> updated from the Severn channel (including kernel)), does not want to
> work with my drive. This is a small problem for me, as all my music is
> on the drive, and I'd like to listen to music while working. 
> 
> On my 9.0 system, I could see the drive as /dev/sda and I could mount
> /dev/sda1 /mnt etc, without an issue.
> 
> I have a feeling this also has to do with my cdrom not working in Severn
> as well. I have a plextor 52x32x48 CDRW, grub has the line appended to
> say hdc=ide-scsi , but dmesg gives seek errors. 
> 
I see seek errors on all my CDROM devices on all my Severn and Rawhide
boxes... I think something about smartd triggers a seek error on CDROM
devices.  I haven't worried too much about it though.

> But i'll work on that after I get the firewire to work. 
> Nobody responded to the other guy, I'm hoping someone will help me. 
> 
If there's anything you'd like me to try on my end, I'm more than happy
to help you debug the problem.

Jared Smith