Howto create firewire block device file ?

weather-report · 11-30-2013, 09:18 AM

firewire block device file is not create.
environment is Debian Wheezy, and Linux kernel 3.4.x,

firewire controler is

LSI Corporation FW643 [TrueFire] PCIe 1394b Controller (rev 08)

controler is recognized correctly,

lspci | grep firewire

[ 2.708970] firewire_ohci 0000:03:00.0: irq 44 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 2.709016] firewire_ohci 0000:03:00.0: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 0, 8 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x0
[ 3.209296] firewire_core 0000:03:00.0: created device fw0: GUID 010800000000b3e3, S800

but, block device file is not created.
best regard.

metaschima · 12-20-2013, 10:19 PM

So there is no '/dev/fw0' ? The driver says that it created it.