Hi, since a view weeks I try to connect my externel harddisk to my laptop computer containing a usb and a firewire interface. 'cause I've just have slow usb 1.1 on my notebook I tried it via IEEE 1394 interface. The HDD will be detected, the partitions, too. But mounting a partition fails. Via usb it works. Before I forget: within windows it works well via firewire. Here is the syslog output: Dec 12 14:30:26 notebook kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Dec 12 14:30:27 notebook kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-01:1023 Dec 12 14:30:27 notebook kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: Vendor: WDC WD20 Model: 00JB-00GVA0 Rev: Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06 Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB) Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, typ e 0 Dec 12 14:30:35 notebook scsi.agent[4415]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:04.1/ fw-host0/0030e00e8201082a/0030e00e8201082a-0/host4/4:0:0:0 But when trying to mount the vfat partition on it I just get a "FAT: invalid media value (0x40)". And fdisk doesn't see any partition. Anyone an idea what I can do? Or where I can find more information about such problems? Or where to get a list of devices working with linux via firewire? Well, as I said: via usb it works. But 1.1 is that slow... Ciao Rajko
