System doesn't recognise Firewire-HDD on Umax Pulsar with current debian kernel

["Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I just installed Debian Etch from a recent netinst image. The system
works fine, with just one exception: I can't see my firewire HDD. The
firewire PCI card shows up fine in both lspci and dmesg, but the
system seems not to react on plugging in the drive (or having it
plugged in during system boot).

The system is a Umax Pulsar with a Sonnet Crescendo G3/400 upgrade card.

# uname -a
Linux penguin 2.6.18-3-powerpc #1 Mon Dec 4 15:30:06 CET 2006 ppc GNU/Linux

# lspci
00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. Bandit PowerPC host bridge (rev 03)
00:0d.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-2940U2/U2W
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78)
00:0f.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21052 (rev 01)
00:10.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Grand Central I/O (rev 02)
01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 43)
01:02.0 Multimedia controller: Philips Semiconductors SAA7146 (rev 01)
01:03.0 Display controller: Integrated Micro Solutions Inc. IMS9128
[Twin turbo 128] (rev 01)

# dmesg|egrep "(ohci|ehci|sbp|ieee)"
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[18]
MMIO=[80801000-808017ff]  Max Packet=[2048]  IR/IT contexts=[8/8]
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance

# lsmod|egrep "(ohci|ehci|sbp|ieee)"
sbp2                   24840  0
ohci1394               40400  0
ieee1394              426800  2 sbp2,ohci1394
scsi_mod              169136  8
sbp2,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,mesh,mac53c94,aic7xxx,scsi_transport_spi


For me all this looks good, I can't see why the disk shouldn't show up.
I just migrated from a Debian/Sparc box (an Enterprise 250 consumes
way too much energy for a home network server), and the disk was
operating fine in this setup.

BTW: I've been away from Debian/PowerPC for a couple of month now, and
I've to say that I'm impressed of the new Debian Installer. Hardware
detection and LVM is working flawlessly. Great job!

Regards
Christian