firewire 400 and FC7

[Darlene Wallach]

michael wrote:
> I've just tried to connect my LaCie disk up to my Fedora box (Intel Duo2
> Core):
> 
> 	$ uname -a Linux veri.phy.umist.ac.uk 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Aug 21
> 21:50:50 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> but it's not happy with the Firewire 400 connect. All I can see of
> relevance in /var/log/messages is:
> 
> 	Oct  3 14:49:37 veri kernel: firewire_core: giving up on config rom for
> node id ffc0
> 
> Looking about I see that there's been some issues re Firewire and FC7
> but does anybody know if it's been fixed or how I can use my LaCie box?
> 
> Thanks, M
> 
> 
> 

Michael,

I just saw your email.

I have an external Maxtor harddisk connected to my
computer via firewire 400.

$ /sbin/lspci
01:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 
Controller (Link)

$ uname -a
Linux netblock-68-183-228-148.dslextreme.com 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu 
Sep 27 23:10:59 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

If I remember correctly, I unstalled a pci card
in my VA Linux 420 box, plugged the Maxtor into
the firewire and everything worked. I did this
recently - a few months ago when I still had
Fedora Core 3 still installed. Once I had the
external drive connected I installed Fedora 7.

It sounds like you are having a different problem.

Darlene Wallach