IEEE1394, SBP2 and External Firewire HDD

[raxet]

Jim - 815 PIII wrote:

> 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 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.
>> 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.
>>
>
> I have had plenty of CDROM problems with the prior beta. One of the 
> problems surrounded the hdx=ide-scsi addition to the kernel. Removing 
> the additional line allowed me to burn from my writer without any 
> problems.
>
> Here is the cdrom related excerpt from /etc/fstab. (symlinks can 
> obscure what is really going on. See symlinks below)
>
> /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom       udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1   /mnt/cdrom1      udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
> symlinks point to below:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root   9 Jul 18 17:25 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root   9 Jul 18 17:25 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scd1
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk  15,   0 Jan 30  2003 /dev/cdu31a
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk  24,   0 Jan 30  2003 /dev/cdu535
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root  8 Sep 22 17:20 /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/sg1
>
> in my /boot/grub/grub.conf file. I have the following settings. I 
> haven't tried to burn a cdrom recently. The last time I burned a cd 
> was with hdd=ide-scsi removed from the kernel. You should be able to 
> copy the text for your working kernel. Paste it below your present 
> entry. Rename it to designate that no ide-scsi is there. (Such as RHL 
> no ide-scsi in the title. Remove the ide-scsi parameter, then save the 
> file and reboot your system into that kernel version. Then try the 
> cdrom out and the drive.
>
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.9)
>         root (hd1,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img
>
> ----
> For the music drive. (My USB / IDE drive is used for the same purpose)
>
> As someone from Red Hat pointed out (bad w/ remembering names)
> The problem might be with the last two entries in your etc fstab file. 
> I have a USB adapter for an IDE laptop drive. It errored out with a 
> disk check entry. Something about USB is loaded after other programs. 
> I changed the entry to 0, 0 and the drive mounted and did not lockup 
> any more.
>
> This is a reply anyway. I hope it leads you in the right direction anyway.

It's nice, but doesn't address Firewire drives, particularly the BUSLink 
48x12x48 CDRW drive that works with RH 9.
I'm drawing attention again, since I don't believe anyone has chimed in 
on the firewire issue and these nptl kernels. Since
we're approaching beta2 soon, it would be nice to here more on this from 
anyone at RH.

Raxet