Mounting external HD in firewire enclosure - FC2

[rogerdodd]

Hi,

I've got FC2 on a toshiba laptop with kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3 . I Have a maxtor hard drive 160GB within an enclosure providing a firewire interface. Having read around a bit I've made sure I have all the modules such as sbp2 and others - lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
8139too                17920  0 
mii                     3584  1 8139too
vfat                    9984  0 
fat                    33600  1 vfat
sd_mod                 16384  0 
sbp2                   18184  0 
snd_mixer_oss          13824  2 
snd_intel8x0           26796  3 
snd_ac97_codec         54788  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                69256  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              17284  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8072  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                3328  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         4864  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            17444  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          6152  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    39396  10 snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               6112  3 snd
video1394              13260  0 
raw1394                21612  0 
parport_pc             19392  1 
lp                      8236  0 
parport                29640  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                12932  0 
ds                     12292  4 
yenta_socket           15232  0 
pcmcia_core            47176  2 ds,yenta_socket
sunrpc                109924  1 
floppy                 47440  0 
sg                     27680  0 
scsi_mod               91984  3 sd_mod,sbp2,sg
microcode               4768  0 
ohci1394               26392  1 video1394
ieee1394              278964  4 sbp2,video1394,raw1394,ohci1394
dm_mod                 32800  0 
uhci_hcd               24472  0 
ehci_hcd               22916  0 
button                  4632  0 
battery                 6924  0 
asus_acpi               8984  0 
ac                      3340  0 
ipv6                  184672  8 
ext3                  103656  2 
jbd                    40728  1 ext3

However, I'm having no joy in getting the drive mounted. When I try to run fdisk /dev/sda I just get "unable to open /dev/sda" and looking at var/log/messages I get the following:

Jul 31 14:37:29 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
Jul 31 14:37:30 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
Jul 31 14:37:30 localhost kernel:   Vendor: Maxtor 6  Model: Y160P0            Rev:     
Jul 31 14:37:30 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 06
Jul 31 14:37:30 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
Jul 31 14:37:30 localhost kernel: sda: asking for cache data failed
Jul 31 14:37:30 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 31 14:37:40 localhost scsi.agent[3525]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:00.0/fw-host0/0050770e00071002/0050770e00071002-0/host1/1:0:0:0/type does not exist

I'm no expert at this kind of thing so any help would be appreciated

thanks

rog

[thebean]

What file system does your hard drive use?

try this as root:

modprobe ohci1394
fdisk -l <-- see if your drive is listed

then you can mount