[PlanetCCRMA] Lacie Firewire drive on Planet CCRMA

[Aaron Heller]

I've found that a couple of my firewire drives need an "extra nudge" to get
recognized.  One is an iomega and the other is an Ikebana that Fry's had on
sale at one point.  Seagate and Maxtor drives work fine.  

Here's a script that I found that causes the problem drives to be
recognized.   I haven't tried it on FC1 or 2, but it looks pretty generic.
I put it at
  http://www.ai.sri.com/ajh/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.txt
(I stuck .txt on the end, so your browser doesn't try to run it)

Here's another firewire-ish question...  One of my machines (running CCRMA
RH9) has a TB raid array and multiple FW drives which are used to backup
the raid.  These appear as /dev/sd*, however the assignment of a given
drive to a particular /dev/sd device varies from boot to boot.  Is there
anyway to force the assignment to be the same from boot to boot?

Thanks...  Aaron Heller <heller@ai.sri.com> Menlo Park, CA

--On Monday, October 18, 2004 11:14 -0700 Mark Knecht
<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just checked my laptop under both Gentoo and Planet/FC2. In both
> cases I mount using
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/audio1
> 
> My drives are both FAT32 & ext3. They both work. This is, however, a
> custom kernel build from kernel.org and not a Planet kernel. If Fedora
> changes (somehow) the drive names then things could be differnet.
> 
> Two things:
> 
> 1) Make sure that ohci1394, ieee1394 and sbp2 are all loaded.
> 
> 2) Check dmesg for info when you plug the drive in. It should say what
> it's callign the drive, ala /dev/sda, etc. Mount your drive partition
> from there.
> 
> FYI - none of my DVD's or CDRW's work under 2.6 or 2.4.
> 
> Good luck,
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:46:56 -0400, Andres Cabrera
> <acabrera@teleset.com.co> wrote:
>> Thanks Fernando,
>> I'm actually trying to use my Lacie firewire hard drive, the internal
>> cdrom is working fine.
>> Sorry for not being clear...
>> Andres
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 08:00, Andres Cabrera wrote:
>> > 
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> I've been unable to use my Lacie firewire drive in FC1 Planet CCRMA.
>> >> The drive works under knoppix kernel 2.4, so it should also work on
>> >> the planet. Here's what I've found different:
>> >> On knoppix, there's no /proc/bus/ieee1394 directory.
>> >> On FC1 that directory contains the file "devices" which says:
>> >> Node[1-00:1023]  GUID[00d04b380e097569]:
>> >>   Vendor ID: `LaCie Group SA  ' [0x00d04b]
>> >>   Capabilities: 0x0083c0
>> >>   Bus Options:
>> >>     IRMC(0) CMC(0) ISC(0) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
>> >>     LSPD(0) MAX_REC(64) CYC_CLK_ACC(255)
>> >>   Unit Directory 0:
>> >>     Vendor/Model ID: LaCie Group SA   [00d04b] / LaCie 1394 Disk drive
>> >> LUN 0  [000000]
>> >>     Software Specifier ID: 00609e
>> >>     Software Version: 010483
>> >>     Driver: SBP2 Driver
>> >>     Length (in quads): 8
>> >> 
>> >> The file /proc/scsi/scsi on knoppix includes(apart from the cdrom):
>> >> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>> >>   Vendor: WDC WD16 Model: 00BB-00DAA3      Rev: 75.1
>> >>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 06
>> >> On FC1 it only includes the cdrom, when the fw drive should be there
>> >> as well.
>> >> 
>> >> Also on FC1 there is a directory (which is not there on knoppix)
>> >> called /proc/scsi/sbp2_1 which contains the file "1" which contains:
>> >> 
>> >> Host scsi1             : SBP-2 IEEE-1394 (ohci1394)
>> >> 
>> >> Module options         :
>> >>   max_speed            : S800
>> >>   max_sectors          : 255
>> >>   serialize_io         : no
>> >>   exclusive_login      : yes
>> >> 
>> >> Attached devices       : none
>> >> 
>> >> I've already added the following to fstab:
>> >> /dev/sda2 /mnt/fw1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=root 0 0
>> >> /dev/sda3 /mnt/fw2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=root 0 0
>> >> /dev/sda5 /mnt/fw3 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=root 0 0
>> >> Which were generated by knoppix, and work there.
>> >> Then trying:
>> >> mount /dev/sda2
>> >> gives:
>> >> mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Hmmm, I think /dev/sdn (where n is the "letter" of the device) is only
>> > for hard disks, you could try /dev/scdn, I think those are the devices
>> > you want for cdroms.
>> > 
>> > -- Fernando
>> > 
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
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