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Hi, I am hoping someone can help me with a problem. I have a laptop and so far I have everything working except my external drive that connects to my firewire port.
I am not sure where to even start. I have a couple other external drives and they work fine via USB or PCMCIA but not through my Firewire port.
Distribution: Xubuntu 12.04, Mythbuntu, Ubuntu Server 12.04
Posts: 174
Rep:
I have not much experience with Firewire, except for using it with a digital video camera. However:
what's your kernel version (uname -a)? For a really working Firewire you would need something beyond 2.4.13 iirc.
Are the appropriate kernel modules loaded (lsmod)? You would need at least "ieee1394" and for an external drive probably "sbp2".
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