Firewire External Harddisk

[toyfactory]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:10:49 -0700 (PDT), "gm c" <gm_c2 at yahoo.com> said:
> You have to have a kernel with 1394 installed or as a module and
> install the module. Plug it in and Dmesg will show a dev connected.
> Run cfdisk on dev (/dev/sda) to partition and mount. If you are using
> udev then a icon should appear on desktop.

Or not as the case may be.  I think both Warty and Hoary include support
for external Firewire drives but in practice detection is a somewhat hit
and miss affair.  Every few boots my drives simply doesn't get detected,
unplugging and replugging doesn't work so I just have to cross my
fingers
and reboot.  It's extremely irritating!

Good luck with your drives! ;)

Nick

> mike  
> 
> --- "René L. Reingard" <reingard at hispeed.ch> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi
> > It is high time for me to install an external harddrive for backup 
> > 
> > security.
> > The drive is only running by Firewire. The machine has an 1394 - 4
> > Pin -  
> > Firewire - Connection.
> > Unfortunately i do not know anything about how to deal with
> > Firewire and  
> > its standards.
> > I do run the external drive with own power supply. So far the drive
> > does  
> > not get detected automatically by Hoary.
> > What to check? What to do?
> > Thank you for help.
> > René
> > 
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