well i have read all the help i could find on the net
i got my kernel to load the modules, i can see it notices when i connect and power on the drive but then when i try to

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

all i get is my cd rom ...

and in the /var/log/messages i get the following:

ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[d3000000-d3000800] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Node 1:1023 has non-standard ROM format (0 quads), cannot parse
/etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent: Setup sbp2 for IEEE1394 product 0x0030e0/0x00609e/0x010483
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out
ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2_login_device failed
scsi2 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver

as you can c it says some thing about forcing to serialize wich as far as i know isnt bad (but im not sure) but the next line it has an error with login ... and that i have no idea what it means so any help would be great

i forgot i am runing rh 7.3 with the original kernal 2.4.18-3 and i have a problem updating it since my system is on a promise raid drive, and its a dual boot machine

did you ever find a solution to this? I seem to have exactly the same problem....

A bit of a 'me too' here. My system (Mandrake 10, Kernel 2.6.*) fails to recognise my external firewire hard drive(MAXTOR DV500). The drive is shown up when I run gscanbus.

my dmesg output around the ieee1394/sbp-2 stage is:

ohci1394: $Rev: 1097 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[3] MMIO=[e9004000-e90047ff] Max
Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010b9200089623a]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[0090e600000000ce]
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices

...... snip ........

bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

And there are no drives logged in /dev or /dev/devfs etc I ain't technical enough to sort this one out .

Any suggestions would be very welcome

Cheers

P-J

I had the same problem with the login timing out with Fedora Core 1. It seems to be a "redhat" thing, as Xandros 2 and SuSE 9 mount the Firewire drives fine. IIRC Mandrake is a Red Hat repackage.

Keith