On 4/22/05, Ed Hill <ed@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 23:01 -0400, Kevin Old wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've followed this thread exactly as it states and can't seem to get > > things working. > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg06925.html > > > > I have a Panasonic PV-GS15 MiniDV camcorder and have a Firewire PCMCIA card > > 0b:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation uPD72874 IEEE1394 OHCI > > 1.1 3-port PHY-Link Ctrlr (rev 01) > > > > I've checked at linux1394.org and it is supported. I'm trying to > > mount an external harddrive via Firewire (it's in a USB 2.0/Firewire > > enclosure). > > Hi Kevin, > > >From all of your settings, you should be able to get video content from > the camera over the 1394 interface using, for instance: > > $ dvgrab movie001 > > although you may need to be root to get the command to work (and of > course you'll need to have dvgrab installed which is described in the > link above). > > And I've no experience with 1394-connected hard drives but they should > appear as SCSI devices: > > http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.php > > so take a look in: > > $ more /proc/scsi/scsi > > after the drive is connected. And, if so, then mount it as you would > any other SCSI drive. > > Ed Ed, Thanks for your reply. I ended up solving my problem by hooking up a 5V power supply to my external harddrive and FC3 was able to recognize it. I didn't realize that Firewire wasn't like USB and powered the device. Thanks for your help. -- Kevin Old kevinold@xxxxxxxxx
