Re: Unable to access firewire hard drive

[Clemens L. <cl...@la...>]

Peter Christy wrote:
> Under Windoze, the drive functions perfectly as either USB or FireWire (ie
> this is not a hardware fault!)
>
> Under Slackware, when connected as USB, the drive is immediately recognised,
> and a prompt appears on the desktop asking if I want to mount it. If I accept,
> it is mounted as /media/Video (the partition label).
>
> If I connect it as Firewire, although the kernel appears to recognise it (see
> demsg above), no prompt to mount it appears. Attempting to mount it manually
> creates an eror message saying it can't identify the filing system. Specifying
> ntfs-3g produces a "wrong super-block" error.

Please show the output of these commands:
  xxd -g1 /dev/sdd | head -32
  xxd -g1 /dev/sdd1 | head -32
for both USB and FireWire.

> sd 5:0:0:0: [sdd] 312558593 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB)

Is this size exactly the same with USB and FireWire?


Regards,
Clemens