Re: Problem seeing/mounting external firewire hard drives
Sex, 29.06.2012, Canton disse:
> Hi there,
> First of all THANK YOU to everyone who is maintaining debian PowerPC.
> I'm so happy to have my trusty old laptop back in use again.
>
> I've ressurected my Powerbook G3 pismo (actually a G4/500 upgrade) and
> it's running 2.6.32-5-powerpc just great... except for mounting
> firewire drives. Anyone here who can help?
>
> When I plug in an external firewire drive, I see the following
> messages:
>
> Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231276] firewire_core: giving up
> on config rom for node id ffc1
> Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231307] firewire_core: phy
> config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
> Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.239340] firewire_core: phy
> config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
> Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.247322] firewire_core: phy
> config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
> Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.255363] firewire_core: phy
> config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
> Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.263347] firewire_core: phy
> config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
> Jun 26 21:49:25 debian kernel: [20293.369010] firewire_core: phy
> config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=63
>
> I've tried a number of different drives and firewire cables, tried
> drives with different filesystems from HFS+ to FAT... But every time I
> get this 'giving up on config rom' error.
>
Just to check: wouldn't you have a MacOSX CD/DVD to boot from and check
if everything is OK with the whole firewire stuff?
A few days ago [1] it has been reported on the list that firewire was
successfully used to install debian on a Mac mini. You could try that
to see if openfirmware sees firewire disk correctly.
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> Hot-plugging USB drives and DVDs works great -- it's just firewire
> that's hosed.
>
> Any tips?
>
>
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