Recognizing an External Firewire Hard Drive

[shiva777]

Hello all. I am hoping to get Knoppix to recognize a Lacie Firewire external hard drive.
Any ideas? Thanks for any help!

-john

[rickenbacherus]

As root do:

modprobe ohci1394

Then do lsmod and you should see the driver that you just put in listed.

Then do:

cdrecord -scanbus

[copeloa]

Hi rickenbacherus:

I am following the suggestions you posted some time ago, when helping shiva777, and while it took me sometime to be able to mount the sda1 drive, I finally accomplished it.
On your recommendations to shiva777 you wrote:

...................Then do cdrecord
-scanbus,

and the result of my cdrecord -scanbus is:

root@ttyp0[knoppix]# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.01a16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HITACHI ' 'DVD-ROM GD-S200 ' '0034' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus2:
2,0,0 200) 'HP ' 'DVD Writer 200j ' '1.51' Removable CD-ROM
2,1,0 201) 'WDC ' 'FireWire/USB2.0 ' '4.17' Disk
2,2,0 202) *
2,3,0 203) *
2,4,0 204) *
2,5,0 205) *
2,6,0 206) *
2,7,0 207) *
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#

As you ca see, the Western Digital is on scsibus2.
Plese note that I can also go to the root directory, and list all files of the directory where I placed the sda1 (/f), but that is all I can do, I cannot open any of the .exe files. (Please note that this is Fat 32 hdd, and all files were created with W98SE)
Now, when booting Knoppix, I can see two hda files -1 and 5-, plus the cdrom, knoppix and floppy icons. And when clicking on, say hda1, all files within this directory are shown in the screen, I can open doc files with Kword, I can also save docs to the floppy, which is how I copy the -scanbus info here......... and I would like to be able to do the same with the external Western Digital HD.
I have created a couple of icons, by rigth clicking on desktop, but can not configure the created icons for the WDHD.
Would you please help me to accomplish this? that is, to move all files from the sda1 to such icon, and when clicking on the icon all sda1 directory files should appear on the Konqueror window?

Thanks and best regards

Copeloa

[copeloa]

Hi:

Have I offended anyone with my posts? I thought that this was the place to ask questions regarding knoppix and requests for help. My apologies if I have offended someone at all.

Copeloa

[c123]

I'm adding to this post as I have a similar problem - external firewire drive is a Maxtor 40 GB.

With Knoppix 3.2, the drive is automatically recognised at boot, and the partitions are displayed on the desktop. Here's the relevant parts of lsmod

sbp2                   16288   1
ohci1394               15688   0 (unused)
ieee1394               29516   0 [sbp2 ohci1394]

With Knoppix 3.3, nothing. According to lsmod, the required modules are mounted, but things are a bit differnent to 3.2:

sbp2                   16524   0 (unused)
ohci1394               22888   0 (unused)
ieee1394              183332   0 [sbp2 ohci1394]

sbp2 does seem to be used - is this my problem? What should I do/try next?

On the linux 1394 site, they say to to modprobe the various modules (when starting it up); modprobe raw1394 (do I need this?) gives the following result:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ modprobe raw1394
/lib/modules/2.4.22-xfs/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.o: create_module: Operation not permitted
/lib/modules/2.4.22-xfs/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-xfs/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-xfs/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.o: insmod raw1394 failed

Not sure if this is relevant, but here's a section of my dmesg where it refers to the modules:

ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 02:00.0 to 64
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[9]  MMIO=[10800000-108007ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0010b900100001d0]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[009007010100000f]
sbp2: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]

And lastly, here's the reult of lspci:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ cat /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices
Node[0-00:1023]  GUID[0010b900100001d0]:
  Vendor ID: `Maxtor' [0x0010b9]
  Capabilities: 0x0083c0
  Bus Options:
    IRMC(0) CMC(0) ISC(0) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
    LSPD(2) MAX_REC(64) CYC_CLK_ACC(255)
  Unit Directory 0:
    Vendor/Model ID: Maxtor [0010b9] / 1394 Disk Drive [000000]
    Software Specifier ID: 00609e
    Software Version: 010483
    Driver: SBP2 Driver
    Length (in quads): 8
Node[0-01:1023]  GUID[009007010100000f]:
  Vendor ID: `Linux OHCI-1394' [0x000000]
  Capabilities: 0x0083c0
  Bus Options:
    IRMC(1) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
    LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) CYC_CLK_ACC(0)
  Host Node Status:
    Host Driver     : ohci1394
    Nodes connected : 2
    Nodes active    : 2
    SelfIDs received: 2
    Irm ID          : [0-01:1023]
    BusMgr ID       : [0-63:1023]
    In Bus Reset    : no
    Root            : yes
    Cycle Master    : yes
    IRM             : yes
    Bus Manager     : no

Thanks in advance for any tips...

p.s. using the latest Sep build of Knoppix; here's what dmesg says:

Linux version 2.4.22-xfs (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Fr Sep 19 17:55:45 CEST 2003

p.p.s I did try the tool 'gscanbus' (from one of the menus) - can't remember exactly the outcome, but didn't solve my problem :(

[aCC]

Just a small update so people who read this thread don't get confused:

The last user did the mistake that he wasn't "root" (=administrator). If you run in this problem, then just type "su" in the command line and try again.

Getting external firewire harddrives to work:
1 - open a terminal (e.g. konsole)
2 - become root (type command "su")
3 - Load firewire modules (type "modprobe ohci1394; modprobe raw1394")
4 - use gscanbus to see if it was detected (type "gscanbus" and look if the drive is there)
5 - mount the new drive (type "mkdir /mnt/sda1; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1". Try other numbers, if this doesn't work.)

Quick'n'dirty. Correct if there are mistakes (just of my head).

[thadk]

Firewire:

(load firewire kernel modules)

The trick is to use the script rescan-scsi-bus.sh on http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html if gscanbus and cdrecord -scanbus don't work for you.

rescan-scsi-bus.sh

[thammer]

I have run modprobe ieee1394; modprobe ohci1394; modprobe sbp2 without any error messages.

I have run gscanbus, which shows the firewire drive.

But then what?

I've tried doing mkdir /mnt/fw; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/fw, but get the error message "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device". I tried with sda2, sda3, sda4, sdc1, etc, but get the same error message.

I tried running rescan-scsi-bus.sh, and the firewire drive shows up at scsi2: 0 0 0.

How am I supposed to know the device name (path) of the firewire disk?

Help would be very much appreciated

.Thomas

[c123]

I tried running rescan-scsi-bus.sh, and the firewire drive shows up at scsi2: 0 0 0.

I'm pretty newbie-ish myself, but sounds as though you have two scsi devices, in which case your external HDD may be sdb rather than sda . Basically sd = scsi (not ide) device; a = 1st device, b = 2nd device, c = 3rd device and so on; lastly the figure after that refers to the partition.

After executing rescan-scsi-bus.sh, use fdisk (!) for a list of disks and their partitions, e.g.

fdisk -l

or you might have to type

/sbin/fdisk -l

Then do the mkdir and mount as you've been trying.

[Schopenhauer101]

Sigh!
Its depressing how many days i've been stuck with this shit now.
Its the first time i really need to ask somebody for help. Im a newbie by the way, ive just got half a years experience or so.

Well, i've modprobed ochi1394, raw1394 and ieee1394 in order to get the darn maxtor-hd to run. Ive used the rescan-scsi-bus.sh but i still cant mount the bastard.

cdrecord -scanbus gives me the following:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' '1016' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'Maxtor ' '5000DV ' '0100' Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

...and fdisk -l actally gives the following:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163927556096 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 19929 160079661 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
But when i try lsmod i just get this:

Module Size Used by Not tainted
raw1394 19252 0 (unused)
sbp2 16588 0
ohci1394 22888 0 (unused)
ieee1394 183268 0 [raw1394 sbp2 ohci1394]
parport_pc 24840 1 (autoclean)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's a line from lspci, by the way

02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
i mkdir, and then when i try to mount /dev/sda1 i just get this evilness:

mount: can't find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Everything works just lovely in Xandros (but who the heck wants to use that profithungry payware monster OS anyway? I dont, but i at least wanted to have a look at it.)
Oh, Im using knoppix (3.3) 19-02-2004, by the way.

It incredible how much one can learn from reading interesting stuff in this forum, and i hope that if someone can help me, it will be of benefit for others thats got the same kind of trouble as me.

Take care,
Scopenhauer.