Re: [ccp4bb]: Firewire - Linux - upgrade of a Mandrake 7.2 box

[Paul Emsley <paule@chem.gla.ac.uk>]

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On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 12:05, Fred. Vellieux wrote:
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> The latest Mandrake distribution indicates automagic recognition...
> 
> But we do not wish to install ML8 on this machine.
> 
> So if any of the gurus out there know:
> 
> Is there any way to upgrade our box so that we could use
> a PCI-Firewire card 

Yes.  It is completely a kernel (linux) issue.

(I wouldn't describe myself as a guru). But you want to get yourself a
kernel that has the ieee1374 directory, ours (RH7.2) has:

/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ieee1394.o
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/pcilynx.o
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.o
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o
/lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/video1394.o

You then need to install a couple of these (I think sbp2 and ieee1394)
and the disk appears pseudo-scsi device (like a usb camera).

You can then simply mount this as you would a scsi disk.


> (so as to be able to use a firewire disk
> after synchrotron trips)?

That was our idea.  It works fine at the redhat/server end, but I/we
can't get the firewire to work on the Window98 laptop:)

HTH somewhat, 

Paul.