On 08/09/2011 11:38 AM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
On 08/09/2011 12:03 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 08/05/2011 11:32 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
On 08/05/2011 08:27 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 08/05/2011 04:55 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
On 08/05/2011 04:44 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
Hi All,
I am running sl6 x64.
Question: is there some module I can modprobe at boot
that will get wake up my two Firewire ports? Any
other method?
Many thanks,
-T
Hi Todd,
Mine worked right from the point of installation, but
doing an lsmod shows:
firewire_sbp2 - but nothing using it, but also I don't
have any firewire devices connected right now.
firewire_ohci - same as above.
firewire_core - firewire_sbp2, firewire_ohci - the
other two modules are using it.
I hope that helps & let me know if you need any
other info
Regards,
Alex
Huh. Does your firewire plug and play like your USB?
I had a G-Drive Mini (usb and firewire) that I needed to
remove the Apple format. Nothing happened when I
tried it under Firewire. Everything showed up when I
plugged it into my (powered) USB hub. fdisk was
accomplished. It would have been nice to get it to
work under Firewire too.
I see the computer again Tuesday, so I will do an lsmod
on it to see what shows up.
Many thanks,
-T
Hi Todd, Yes I plug
it in and it works, and always has been like that. What I
have is a LaCie Firewire DVD-RW unit and also an Alesis
MIDI/Audio interface that both connect no problem, whether
hot-plugged or plugged in before booting.
You mention Apple ( I also use an Apple with SL) so: if it's
an Apple computer (Just to let you know if you don't
already) and you want to boot from you external HDD; it
won't. Neither USB or Firewire devices are supported for
booting on Apples (I've tried a lot of things on my own and
most of what I've found on the internet to get that to work
Not even with ReFit will it work - the only thing I haven't
tried is putting an entry in GRUB and seeing if that might do
it..but that's a project for another day...lol). Anyway, only
if you have a firewire connection from another Apple computer
will an Apple boot from a drive not enclosed in itself.
If it's a storage device only, then the firewire sub-system
should be brought up as SL loads, and the device should be
visible when the desktop is up. One other thing is it doesn't
matter if it's got an MBR or GPT (GUID) partition table, but I
don't think anything else will work (again if it's an Apple).
Maybe check your dmesg log and see if there is anything in
there indicating what might be going on at boot time (it
should show the fw modules loading) and also watch the system
log when you plug the device in.
The other thing I was thinking about was packages, since I
installed SL so long ago I can't remember if I added something
when I was doing the install, but from looking at the
installed firewire packages in yum, all the ones I have
installed are related to music and dv interfaces so I'm
thinking that anything that was needed for general
connectivity was installed in the default installation.
If it's not an Apple, I'd be checking in the BIOS too, to see
if there is somewhere in there the firewire ports can be
turned on and off. Lastly, if it's a expansion card that's
just been installed, you probably will need to add the modules
and/or there could be some firmware that's needed for that
particular device. I'm not all that sure about that part.
Actually one more thing, if the device and USB ports on the
computer are USB2 and either of your firewire ports are F400
(ie device and/or computer), then the transfer rate will be
better using the USB2. If the firewire is F800 on both ends,
that would give you a faster transfer rate. You can
decide whether knowing that, you want to bother.
Good luck, and just ask if you have more questions when you
get back to it. Sorry this is a bit ramble-ish and somewhat
not very well ordered...lol.
Just as an aside; in my experience, you shouldn't have an
external drive routed through a hub, it should be a direct
connect to a computer port. It will work through the hub, but
it eventually burns up the hubs ports, due to the extreme
amount of data traffic going through.
Alex
$ lsmod | grep -i firewire
firewire_ohci 24867 0
firewire_core 50853 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1683 1 firewire_core
Hi,
Seems to be one missing. Check these links out:
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/FIREWIRE_SBP2.html
https://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration
Also, which kernel are you running?
Alex
$ /sbin/lspci -v | grep -i fire
08:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A
IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci
Hi Guys,
Figured it out. I was not patient enough. Seems it takes about
twice
as long as USB to register it does firewire. I measured it at 30
seconds
to register. Then everything worked perfectly.
Thank you for all your help and tips. (And patience too.)
-T
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