RH 7.3 won't recognize ieee1394 cd-rw
 

Has anyone been able to get a LaCie cd-rw U&I to be recognized by Linux using ieee1394? Running on RH7.3 with 2.4.18-3 kernel. Have been through ieee1394 set-up on linux ieee1394.org site and have ohci1394, raw1394,sbp2, and hotplug configured. Tested with gscanbus and it recognized the LaCie drive correctly. Also added line to /etc/fstab as--
/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 noauto, owner, rw 0 0 --
this must be wrong as boot message shows /etc/fstab fails when looking for it saying " cannot stat /dev/cdrom2 no such file of directory" . Any ideas on what else to try?

/dev/cdromX is usually a symlink to whatever IDE or SCSI device the drive really is. If this is your only SCSI device (firewire emulates as a scsi device), then it should really be /dev/scd0, check dmesg for the scsi chain registration to make certain.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks for the tip. This is not my only SCSI device, I also have two hard drives and a DVD-RAM device, all are listed in dmesg but nothing about the firewire device. When I review the /dev directory I see an item showing symlink from /dev/cdrom1 to scd0. CDROM1 is my SCSI DVD-RAM device. I tried changing the line in /etc/fstab to " /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 ---" using scd1 to represent the firewire device and rebooted. Now boot message says ok for /etc/fstab but still system doesnt recognize the firewire device. dmesg also shows the following lines that may be pertinent:

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device-login timed out
ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2_login_device failed
scsi 1: IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver
raw 1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized

Ideas anyone?

I think that redhat8 supports firewire out of the box, it might be easier to upgrade.