Subj : ieee1394 + linux = rocks! To : All From : Ibanez Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 10:03 pm Hey all, Well, I acquired an external drive enclosure (four 5.25" bays), two removable racks, and two 80GB drives. I plan to use them ultimately for a different purpose than what I'm doing at the moment, but I wanted to play with all this stuff in Linux just because I wanted to see it work (ultimately this stuff will be attached to the BBS machine which runs windows). Anyway, the external drive enclosure is ieee1394a (firewire/400) and has two oxford 911 firewire-to-ide bridge chips (same chip supported by oracle for doing shared storage via firewire on linux interestingly enough). Also, I'm using an add-on firewire card that utilizes the VIA VT6306 chipset. Yeah, I made sure I picked linux approved parts as usual. ;) So, fired up menuconfig, added in the necessary firewire drivers, and recompiled the kernel. After a /sbin/lilo and a reboot (cause I compile everything in & not as modules) I was pleasantly surprised to find everything working according to plan thus far. Well, almost. Strange thing: only one of the two drives showed up initially. Fixed this by just unplugging and plugging back in the firewire cables. Did a "cdrecord -scanbus" (since firewire drives show up as scsi and rightfully so as firewire is a subset of the scsi protocol). Now both drives are recognized fine. So, I fdisked, formatted, and mounted them. Viola! :) I'm wondering if I'll have this problem again - the not-finding-all-drives-on-bootup. Even though firewire storage is considered removable storage, it doesn't have to be (and won't be unplugged unless I'm moving! heh). Anyway, wanted to share my firewire storage experience on Linux with you guys. :) - Ibanez 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 The Bit Bucket BBS Http, Telnet, FTP: Address 1: bitbucket.homedns.org Address 2: bitbucket.zapto.org 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴� � 컴컴컴컴컴컴컴 --- � Synchronet � The BitBucket BBS - bitbucket.homedns.org .