Firewire disc not detected

[MickeN]

My external disk is not detected at boot up. It's a firewire LaCie disk.

Is there any way I can force Knoppix to identify when booting?
Is there a way to find the disk, and connect to it, when Knoppix is up and running?

Thanks,

/Micke

[rwcitek]

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Is there any way I can force Knoppix to identify when booting?
Is there a way to find the disk, and connect to it, when Knoppix is up and running?

Knoppix should automatically recognize the FireWire drive. However, since it isn't, boot Knoppix as you normally would without the drive plugged in. Then type this into a root terminal (K > Knoppix > Root shell):

dmesg -c >& /dev/null

Now plug in the FireWire drive and type these commands:

 ( set -x
 dmesg
 lspci
 cat /proc/partitions
 cat /etc/fstab
 ls -la /mnt/
 ) >& post.txt

Pleast post the contents of post.txt.

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org