Activating FireWire HD at boot time

From: Rohan Beckles (rohan.beckles_at_virgin.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:53:40 +0100

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I have a Maxtor OneTouch 250GB USB2.0/FireWire external HD. It is a attached
to a VIA-based USB 2.0/IEEE1394 card, with a VT6212 for USB2.0 and a VT6306
for IEEE1394.

The USB2.0 drivers seem to be unstable when accessing the VT6212, so I have
attached the drive using FireWire. However, I am unable to get the drive
to show up on the SCSI chain after boot-up.

I have added this line to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:

        # Initialize IEEE1394 controller
        action $"Initializing IEEE1394 (FireWire/i.Link): " modprobe ohci1394

I have added these lines to /etc/modules.conf:

        # IEEE1394 Stuff
        alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
        alias char-major-171 raw1394
        alias char-major-172 video1394
        post-install ohci1394 modprobe raw1394
        post-install raw1394 modprobe sbp2

This is some of the output of dmesg:

        ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
        ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO=[e3021000-e30217ff] MaxPacket=[2048]
        raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
        ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010b920006b12a6]
        ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[0011060000005a03]
        scsi0 : 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]
        
        hda: attached ide-scsi driver.
        hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
        scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
        Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
        Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
        sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
        sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray

This is the output of "cdrecord -scanbus":

        scsibus1:
                1,0,0 100) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-106 ' '1.14' Removable CD-ROM
                1,1,0 101) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W1210A' '1.02' Removable CD-ROM

As you can see the CD devices show up on SCSI bus 1, but the OneTouch does not
show up on SCSI bus 0. Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thank you for any help (sorry for the long post),

        Rohan Beckles
        rohan.beckles@virgin.net 

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