I'm having trouble getting a firewire harddrive to mount. I'm quite sure that Slack is recognizing it since dmesg says that I am logged into the device and /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices shows that I have something. I'm just not sure where to mount the harddrive.

I've been trying gscanbus, but can't get it to work correctly. It can't seem to find libraw1394, even though I can see it clearly by using lsmod. Also I've gone through the README and done what it said and no go. Help here would be appreciated too.

System is Slack 10.0 with stock 2.4.26 kernal.
P4 2.4ghz
512 ram
firewire is through pci sound card (SoundBlaster Audigy)

Mark?

modprobe ieee1394

modprobe ohci1394

modprobe sbp2


then see if the drive shows-up in fdisk -l while attached...

just my two cents...

All of those modules are loaded already. In fact here is what I get from dmesg when I plug the cable in:

ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: sbp2: Reconnected to SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023

It tells me that I'm logged into the device somehow, but I still don't know which mount point to use.

Mark

ls -l /dev/sb*

that'll give you a good starting point, i think.

Could be completely wrong.

you can use any mount point you like... for example:

/mnt/firewire


if you are refering to the device entry instead (i think you are), then take a look at fdisk's output, as it should show your drive's device entry:

fdisk -l