For some reason this drive connects fine via 1394 to the HP notebook when running MS Win but will not under Ubuntu (Debian) Linux. I've tried my best and wonder if the following messages from dmesg give any clues?

Thanks for any suggestions

Jim

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cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0 x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Read (10) 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
ieee1394: sbp2: reset requested
ieee1394: sbp2: Generating sbp2 fetch agent reset
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
ieee1394: sbp2: reset requested
ieee1394: sbp2: Generating sbp2 fetch agent reset
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
ieee1394: sbp2: reset requested
ieee1394: sbp2: Generating sbp2 fetch agent reset
ieee1394: sbp2: aborting sbp2 command
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lu n 0
SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x50000
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 0
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
scsi0 (0:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 0
unable to read partition table
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0