On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote: > Just to check: wouldn't you have a MacOSX CD/DVD to boot from and check
Hi Gunther, The computer definitely has a good working firewire stack -- I backed up the entire laptop to a firewire external before reformatting the computer as Debian. The problem is that now that the computer is a (mostly) happy Linux machine, it's no longer able to mount external firewire hard drives. I've read some complains that the newfangled debian PPC firewire drivers have been problematic, but those complaints seemed limited to using firewire for fancy stuff (video tapedeck device control) not just regular old FW HD mounting… Thanks again for any advice, - canton > Hi there, > First of all THANK YOU to everyone who is maintaining debian PowerPC. > I'm so happy to have my trusty old laptop back in use again. > > I've ressurected my Powerbook G3 pismo (actually a G4/500 upgrade) and > it's running 2.6.32-5-powerpc just great... except for mounting > firewire drives. Anyone here who can help? > > When I plug in an external firewire drive, I see the following > messages: > > Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231276] firewire_core: giving up > on config rom for node id ffc1 > Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231307] firewire_core: phy > config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5 > Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.239340] firewire_core: phy > config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5 > Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.247322] firewire_core: phy > config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5 > Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.255363] firewire_core: phy > config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5 > Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.263347] firewire_core: phy > config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5 > Jun 26 21:49:25 debian kernel: [20293.369010] firewire_core: phy > config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=63 > > I've tried a number of different drives and firewire cables, tried > drives with different filesystems from HFS+ to FAT... But every time I > get this 'giving up on config rom' error.
