devfs and external 1394 Hard Drive

cajzell

Hello,

I used to run Redhat before, but now I've been interested in gentoo instead.

Before, I used to mount my external Firewire Hard Drive with

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/maxtor

but I realize things are different now with devfs. I do not have /dev/sda1, or any sd* at all for that matter, should I "makedev" these myself nowadays? (in that case, how?)

I have enabled scsi as module in my kernel build and ieee1394 support.

Excuse me if this is stupid.

Caj Zell

Fi · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2002 Posts: 33

have u looked in /dev/scsi/hostX/.....

that's where i used to get
check /sys/bus/ieee1394
or /proc/bus/ieee1394
to see if your device is seen

personnaly i can't get 2.6 to recognize my ieee1394 harddrieve, it worked under 2.4, but i seem to be the onlyu personne with this problem

Phil

Fi · n00b Joined: 27 Jul 2002 Posts: 33

have u looked in /dev/scsi/hostX/.....

that's where i used to get
check /sys/bus/ieee1394
or /proc/bus/ieee1394
to see if your device is seen

personnaly i can't get 2.6 to recognize my ieee1394 harddrieve, it worked under 2.4, but i seem to be the onlyu personne with this problem

Phil

ronmon · Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject:

Have you emerged hotplug and started it?

lolli78 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 162 Location: Europe

hi,
you need to rescan your scsi bus. try this: http://sethbuckley.com/rescan-scsi-bus.txt

good luck,
lorenz.
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