On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Gunther Furtado wrote: Just to check: wouldn't you have a MacOSX CD/DVD to boot from and check Hi Gunther, The computer definitely has a good working firewire stack -- I backed up the entire laptop to a firewire external before reformatting the computer as Debian. The problem is that now that the computer is a (mostly) happy Linux machine, it's no longer able to mount external firewire hard drives. I've read some complains that the newfangled debian PPC firewire drivers have been problematic, but those complaints seemed limited to using firewire for fancy stuff (video tapedeck device control) not just regular old FW HD mounting… Thanks again for any advice, - canton 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. |