Re: lacie BIGGEST FW800

[Hugh D. <hu...@zo...>]

I'm keen to help try to get this working (or just generally advance the 
knowledgebase) - I'll probably bring in a fw400 disk and try hanging it 
off the card (under linux) and also try the card in OSX to see what GUID 
etc I can get out of it.  I'll also see if I can find a good FW800 card 
to try - top recommendations people?

H

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Hugh Dixon wrote:
> 
>> Thing is, under OSX or Windows, it doesn't show as much besides an 
>> "Texas Instruments OHCI compliant ieee1394 Controller" (or words to 
>> that effect - didn't install anything Lacie-specific at all).
> 
> 
> If you have the OS X or Windows box with the LaCie card and a Linux box 
> with another FireWire card in the same room, you could hook them 
> together via FireWire and look up the LaCie card's GUID in Linux' sysfs. 
> But...
> 
>> I'll have a go when I'm back in the office - have just compiled and 
>> installed 2.6.13-rc3 to try ... and indeed, no joy.  I did notice that 
>> it seemed to report 2 GUID's yesterday - will look in output again. 
>> One that nonsensey 55aa55aa55aa55aa and one more "random/genuine" 
>> semingly reported by "the other host" (0-00:1023 vs 0-01:1023) - can't 
>> find it now.  grrr.
> 
> 
> ...if you find it in an old log, the simpler. *However*, the only thing 
> we learn from this is that the LaCie card is indeed not correctly set up 
>