greetings all, the problem I am having is with my western digital 250gig firewire drive. I'm running slackware 10.0 and everything except this works great. Slackware is installed on the main HD, it's just a slack box, no dual booting. When I installed slack from the ISO images, I can cfdisk /dev/sda and it sees the firewire drive, I can also install onto the drive so I know that it can see it, and it works. However, once I was done installing everything on the main drive, and rebooted, logged in etc. linux can't see the firewire drive anymore. it says

FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive. Press any key to exit cfdisk.

the firewire disk is formatted in ext2 so it's not that. Is there a command that can probe the drive, or check if the modules are working currently. insmod yields this
and
so they are there, just don't know why it does not see it. any ideas?

thanks

-mike

msober; from the two codes seems that they be in conflict with each other.
according to what ur post says, exit cfdisk, meaning close it & ieee1394, ohci 1394 already exist, take a close look at them again see which one could be disabled or deleted without disturbing dependancies.

Thank you for the response. Although I have not been able to get the firewire drive working on the 2.4.* kernel, I am running it fine w/ the 2.6.7 kernel.

There is something mysterious about the Maxtor 200GB firewire drive. This is my fstab file, Note that FC2 will not mount or even recognize the firewire connection. When I mount sda1 the terminal window freezes and I have to kill the thread manually. Knoppix and Mandrake recognized immediately and auto mounted. Any ideas?


LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp vfat auto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/firewire vfat auto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 auto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat auto,user,rw 0 0

misterfixit; the ends of listings on post appear not to have permission
0 believe should have a value. that comes from ur root giving permission to r-w-x. whcih non is indicated. ???? why not may have overlooked entering those permissions? check that out.

penguin4 -- as you know the fstab file specifies which partitions should be automatically mounted at bootup time, and you should also know that in terms of controlling which access permissions are granted, there really only 2 mount options that are used: ro and rw. "ro" stands for read-only, and "rw" stands for read-write. Your reply indicated that the "r-w-x" option should have been specified, and implied that the fstab file should be modified. This is an interesting recommendation and I'm curious as to what your fstab file looks like. Can you post it here? Does it include the same permission settings that you are recommending? -- J.W.

Misterfixit: What kernel are you using? 2.4.x kernel does not have firewire added by default. (on slack) so you may have to recompile before it works. Also, have you tried unplugging and then replugging the drive then type

this is my fstab for the firewire hd (mine is a WD 250gig)

/dev/sda1 /mnt/fire ext2 defaults 1 1

jw; from the original post of msober, didn,t mention fstab. so only suggested what was posted originally. attempted to point where to begin undoing & redoing what poster missed.
so from no on will not attempt to assist any body if not familiar with
question nor know answer! thank you.

have you tried rescan-scsi-bus?

Also refer www.linux1394.org