External Harddisk via FireWire

[Rajko Albrecht]

Hi,
since a view weeks I try to connect my externel harddisk to my laptop computer 
containing a usb and a firewire interface.

'cause I've just have slow usb 1.1 on my notebook I tried it via IEEE 1394 
interface. 

The HDD will be detected, the partitions, too. But mounting a partition fails. 
Via usb it works. Before I forget: within windows it works well via firewire.

Here is the syslog output:

Dec 12 14:30:26 notebook kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 
0-00:1023
Dec 12 14:30:27 notebook kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 
0-01:1023
Dec 12 14:30:27 notebook kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 
Devices
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel:   Vendor: WDC WD20  Model: 00JB-00GVA0       
Rev:
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      
ANSI SCSI revision:
 06
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (200050 MB)
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel:  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi4, channel 0, 
id 0, lun 0
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi4, channel 
0, id 0, lun 0,  typ
e 0
Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook scsi.agent[4415]: disk 
at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:04.1/
fw-host0/0030e00e8201082a/0030e00e8201082a-0/host4/4:0:0:0

But when trying to mount the vfat partition on it I just get a "FAT: invalid 
media value (0x40)". And fdisk doesn't see any partition.

Anyone an idea what I can do? Or where I can find more information about such 
problems? Or where to get a list of devices working with linux via firewire? 
Well, as I said: via usb it works. But 1.1 is that slow...

Ciao

Rajko