Re: Advice on using 1394 or FireWire hard disks?
Thanks!
I'm not too familiar with recompiling the kernel. Would anyone care to
comment on my understanding?
1. Download kernel source and kernel package (2.4.18)
2. Extract kernel source into a directory (I assume it doesn't really
matter which directory, although I'll probably do this is /usr/src).
3. Type make config, enable all the 1394 stuff as per:
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/start_install.html
Out of curiosity, what's necessary to run make menuconfig? Not sure which
ncurses bits are needed.
4. Use make-kpkg kernel-image.
5. Move kernel to /boot? and modify grub?
Thanks again!
Jen
On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 03:40:55AM -0400, Robin wrote:
> I haven't had any trouble with my firewire drive and linux... I noticed,
> however, that it doesn't always register the first time the sbp2 module
> is loaded, and depending on order, the emulated SCSI bus it appears on
> may change from time to time.
> It works fine with the kio-mac KDE slave and the HFS+ volumes that're on
> the drive (except that the hfsplus library recently changed)
> Not sure how linux would be able to boot from a partition, however...
> sounds like an application of an init ramdisk since the device has the
> slim possibility of changing SCSI bus numbers (happens most often if I
> turn my CD burner, usb/SCSI emulated, on before||after the firewire
> drive is recognized...)
>
> jennyw wrote:
>
> >Just installed Debian on a PC that has a firewire adapter and an external
> >disk. I was wondering ... how hard is it to access the drive from Linux,
> >and how dangerous would it be?
> >
> >I looked at the linux1394 Web site, and it says that 1394 support is
> >experimental. How experimental, though? And has anyone had luck with this
> >on Debian? I looked through old messages and firewire/1394 is mentioned
> >very infrequently ...
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >Jen
> >
> >
> >
> >
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