Bug#244539: firewire not supported

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:07:56AM +0200, jp moins wrote:
> De     : "Colin Watson" cjwatson@debian.org
> > On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:53:23PM +0200, JP Moins wrote:
> > > Load installer modules: [ E ] -> sbp2 ieee1394 ohci1394 raw1394 (?)
> > > missing to make external
> > [...]
> > > I like my OS X.3 machine; I would love to run linux on the side, on a
> > > removable FW drive.
> > > This is doable, but the installer needs to provide the firewire
> > > modules.
> >
> > That's odd. All of the above, with the exception of raw1394, are built
> > directly into the current installer kernel.
> >
> > Is raw1394 needed? If so, I'll gladly add it.
> 
> Hello Colin,
> Thanks for being so reactive. 2 things:
> 
> a) raw1394 needed : I am a monkey-do type of linux expert, don't take
> this for granted but I think raw1394 was required for 2.4 kernels and
> is not needed in 2.6 (I am slowly building gentoo using 2.6.3-benh2
> kernel, disk access is perfect and I used the following: "modprobe
> sbp2 <wait a bit> modprobe ohci1394". ieee1394 gets loaded by sbp2.
> raw1394 is *not* in there).

OK, I've committed a change to this effect. I'll let you know when a new
daily build containing this change becomes available.

> At the time I experienced with 2.4(.21-benh ?) I couldn't get a stable
> mount for the drive so my experience is limited. Howto's (see bill
> fink's at
> http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2003-October/010501.html)
> mention raw1394. Also for 2.4 kernels was the need to use the
> "rescan-scsi-bus.sh" script.
> 
> b) FW drivers built in the kernel : OOOPS! I didn't figure this (I
> would have tried harder). Normally my drive shows up as "/dev/sda", I
> was offered no partition to mount on /dev/sda in the installer so I
> concluded modules were missing.
> I can try again activating the FW drive w/ the installer if you wish
> (this evening, Paris/france time).

If you could, that would be good, although I suspect you may be right
that the lack of raw1394 kills it.

> => Please : i) ask me to try again explicitely; ii) any hint on how I
> can summon the FW drive to map to /dev/sda ? echo add-scsi-device X X
> X X > /dev/scsi/scsi ??

Unfortunately, I have no idea about this, or whether d-i supports it in
general.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]