IEEE1394, SBP2 and External Firewire HDD

Tue Sep 23 15:27:06 UTC 2003

Thanks to all who replied and gave suggestions. I tried Ben Hsu's
advice, and ran rescan-scsi-bus.sh 

it finds and assigns all the id's correctly. 

as for the CDROM drive, for now, I turned off smartd, and it works fine.

As for the USB/FireWire Storage ...

I have a USB "all-in-one" card reader for my camera, and my firewire
drive, if both are hooked up to the same computer, the USB storage kicks
in first, so the USB device gets /dev/sda , and Firewire gets /dev/sdb 

I have to see how the card reads when I have a memory stick, and a SD
card in at the same time, will it then push the firewire out to sdc ?

I will do a clean install of Beta 2 this weekend, to see if the
installer has fixed the issue, if not I guess we'll see how to make it
work in beta 2. Once beta 2 comes out, i'll document my findings and put
it up on the web for all to see.

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:08, raxet wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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