external firewire hard drive on RHEL AS 3

[Benjamin Hornberger <bho gmx net>]

Hi all,

I am having trouble getting an external firewire hard drive and an external 
firewire DVD writer to work on RHEL AS 3 (academic license). I installed 
the kernel-smp-unsupported package (which at the first time messed up my 
network cards, but at the second time seemed to work). I loaded the 
ieee1394, ohci1394, raw1394 and sbp2 modules, but the latter seems to make 
some problems.

On boot, I get a message like "insmod: a module named sbp2 already exist", 
or something like that. I can't recall the exact message because it is not 
logged in /var/log/boot.log (any hints what is actually logged there, why 
not all the boot messages?)

When I run gscanbus, I see both devices (external hard drive and external 
DVD writer). When I do cdrecord -scanbus or more /proc/scsi/scsi, they 
don't show up. It looks like that firewire in principle is working, but 
they are not recognized as SCSI devices.

Any hints? In general, any hints on how device names / numbers (/dev/scd0 
etc.) are given when there are removable drives?

By the way, both devices worked easily on RH 9.

Thanks for your help!