Re: Firewire hard drives

[Raf D'Halleweyn (list)]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 13:41 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
> John Stoffel wrote:
> > Caleb> Has anyone had any luck getting there external firewire hard
> > Caleb> drive to mount?  my laptop is running suse9.0 and detects the
> > Caleb> firewire hub and works great with my usb devices but when I
> > Caleb> plug in the firewire hdd it boots the device but I can`t mount
> > Caleb> it.
> 
>    (sorry, missed the original post)
> 
>    I am using iPod as firewire disk, works fairly OK except of: sometime 
> it gets into state when system does not recognize the new SCSI disk (it 
> looks like SCSI disk) and nothing helps (unloading modules, 
> disconnecting the device etc.), didn't investigate enough to figure out 
> why (firewire drivers recognize the device but rescanning scsi doesn't 
> find the disk), only reboot helps (out of the options I tried). This is 
> not a bug report, just FYI, I don't have enough details to actually ask 
> for help...

When that happens, try to stop the iPod before you connect (i.e. press
play/pause for 5 seconds) or reboot the iPod (press Menu and play/pause
for 5 seconds).

At least, that works for me most of the times (not always).

Raf.

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