Also, notice that it is my experience that linux/powerpc sbp2 (the firewire disk) mode is rather flakey on 2.6 kernels, when i tried that to backup my powerbook, i failed miserably.Cannot confirm this - on 2.6.8 and 2.6.11 (old BenH BK trees), sbp2 and fw is rock solid. The only trick is to plug in the disk _after_ Linux has booted.
I simply cannot load the sbp2 module. I get the missing bus_to_virt symbol error.
And www.linux1394.org is down. I thought it would be easier. How can I get sbp2 and fw work? I'm using the only linux-kernel package por powerpc64.
That's the only bit missing, copying in my old installation. Eduardo.