Re: FireWire Hard Disk

[jonas bandi <jbandi@ee.ethz.ch>]

Thanks a lot, I got step further now...

Now I have a rather ignorant question:

How do I format my firewire-harddisk so that i can mount it in linux?

I formated it in OsX as DOS-Type.

Under linux pmac-fdisk produces the following output:

titan:/mnt# pmac-fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 3648.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
  (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

  Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System

Command (m for help):


What does that mean? There is no partition recognized, am I correct?

How did you guys out there with working fw-drives format/partition your 
disks?

thanks
jonas

Nicolas Lopez wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:06:51AM +0200, jonas bandi wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > I try to use my firewire-harddisk with my 2nd gen tiBook.
> >
> > I compiled the latest benh kernel as suggested in earlier posts.
> >
> > dmesg produces now the following output:
> <snip>
>
> > Is that good? What is missing?
>  That's all good. 
>
> > What can I do now ? I expected something like "Attached scsi disk sda at 
> > scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0", that would tell me what to mount ...
>  The 1394 stacks in newer BenH kernels are less energetic about reporting
> things to the scsi layer than they used to be.  This is mostly a good thing,
> it just requires either a properly configured hotplug daemon or sending
> notifications to the scsi layer manually. 
>  I manually alert the scsi layer to changes with the rescan-scsi-bus.sh
> script which just forces an excessive reprobe. Search either this lists's
> archives or google for the script. Then just run it after pluging in your
> device and run it again with the -r switch after unpluging the device. Don't
> forget to unmount before removing the devices.
>
>  Also, last I checked there was no support for PowerBook sleep mode(or any)
> and very bad things tend to happen if you put the laptop to sleep while the
> 1394 modules are loaded. I usually get droped into the kernel debugger at
> the first activity on the bus after a sleep. Seeing about properly handling
> sleep is on my todo list. I looked at the code last night and might try
> breaking my kernel tonight.
>
>  - Nick Lopez
>    kimo_sabe@atdot.org
> --
> We still need to do something about quik, ritual goat sacrifice is
> somewhat tricky to implement in C...
>   - Ethan Benson on debian-boot 5-30-01




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