Firewire External Harddisk

[gm c]

I presently have kubuntu installed. It uses udev. when I put a audio
cd in the drive a icon pops up on desktop. When I plug in my externel
drive I have to run konqueror and sellect storage devices which
mounts partitions in /media. When I had ubuntu installed I remember
that when I plugin/powerup externel drive icons poped up on gnome
desktop. 
I am using 2.6.10. maybe different result with 2.4.x.
If no message in /var/log/messages I think modules are not loaded.
Instead of insmod try modprobe. must have ieee1394,ohci1394 and sbp2
installed or in kernel.
give more details of what you did and what you get and dont get. 
mike

--- Henk Postma <henkpm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to chime in here for a minute. 
> 
> I too have had problems with getting an external firewire drive to
> work. I'm running an up to date Hoary on a Sony Vaio SRX77 laptop
> 
> * rebooting with the drive on sometimes works
> I run lsmod to check which modules are loaded extra with respect to
> a
> boot without the drive attached.
> 
> * booting without the drive, and then insmod those modules, then
> connecting the drive often does _not_ load the drive. No messages
> in
> /var/log/messages ... nothing.
> 
> I have tried restarting udev, hald, hotplug, all to no avail.
> 
> What gives? 
> 
> On 6/20/05, gm c <gm_c2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Rene
> > Power up computer with the ext firewire powered off or
> disconnected.
> > Powerup/connect externel drive. Look at /var/log/messages for
> > statement about sda. Mount the sda. If you have udev sda get
> mounted
> > and show up as a desktop icon. If you dont have a sda in messages
> you
> > need to load (modprobe) ieee1394,ohci1394 and sbp2. You can check
> the
> > config file for your kernel in /boot for these loaded in kernel
> If
> > you dont have modules to load or in kernel try installing kernel
> > image (kernel+modules+config files).
> > mike
> > 
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