Re: Help making sense of firewire disk enclosure dilema

From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor_at_gsoft.com.au>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 11:21:25 +0930
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On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:53, George Hartzell wrote:
> I have a machine running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6.
>
> I purchased a pair of "Vantec" USB2.0/Firewire enclosures (NST-350UF)
> for some 80-ish GB IBM Deskstar drives.
>
> The first enclosure worked great (once I got past the kernel panic
> because it didn't like something that was hanging out in the partition
> table area).
>
> The second enclosure was problematic.  If I attached via USB1 (all I
> have), it worked fine.  If I hook it up to a G4 Powermac running OSX
> Jaguar (current-1?), it works fine.  But when I connect it via
> firewire to Servant, GEOM never recognizes/creates a daX device.

We have 2 enclosures at work, both made by Mapower.
They have two different oxford semiconductor devices in them (a Firewire only 
one, and a Firewire/USB2 one).

The Firewire only one _always_ requires that it is plugged in, removed and 
plugged in again before a daX device node will appear (it says New S400 
device.. the first time around but doesn't create the daX node).

The dual firewire/usb2 one works flawlessly all the time (on 4.x and 5.x)

You could try a 'fwcontrol -r' and see what happens.

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