[ltp] Firewire Hard disc on an A22p under mandrake 9.0 - howto

[Harry Mangalam]

What interface are you using?  My a22p doesn't have a 1394, and I didn't think 
that was an option.  Are you using a PCMCIA device?

hjm

Richard Neill wrote:
> Mandrake 9.0 appears broken in that the firewire stuff fails on boot.
> This means that the drive never appears in /dev
> 
> Anyway, to my surprise, the fix is very easy. The pages that tipped me 
> off are here:
> 
> http://www.linux1394.org/faq.html#eth1394
> http://users.actrix.co.nz/michael/usbmount.html
> 
> The basic process is
> 1)rmmod sbp2;
> 2)insmod sbp2 to force it to find the disk and register /dev/sda1
> 3)create a mount point for it
> 4)mount
> 
> If anyone would like more details, I'll post them in full.
> 
> Richard
> 

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Cheers, Harry
Harry J Mangalam - 949 856 2847 (v&f) - hjm@tacgi.com
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