Hi folks, In a recent debian reinstall, trying to get a couple of things to work right together.
I have an 80-gig firewire hard drive, works fine under OS9, connected to my B&W G3, which now runs Debian Woody (mostly) from a SCSI internal hard drive (the drive I currently have in ATA is broken). Trying to get the drive to work, I rolled my own 2.4.20 kernel using kernel-source-2.4.20 without the benh patch (when I triedto apply the patch, I got a message "doesn't apply cleanly"). When I rebooted I couldn't get ethernet to work, even though I enabled just about everything I could in the networking department. Is this because I din't apply the patch? Can anyone tell me how to patch the 2.4.20 kernel? Anyway, when 2.4.20 didn't work, I got the source for 2.4.18, applied the patch, compiled, rebooted, and ethernet worked fine. I was also able to load iee1394, pcilynx,raw1394, and sbp2 no problem, and gscanbus showstwo nodes: "S400 UniBrain FireBoard 400" and "S400 Oxford Smiconductor Ltd". Since my firewire enclosure uses the Oxford chipset I assume that the second node is the hard drive. But I can't get any more information about the device -- and I certainly can't read any partitions off of it. >From hunting around, I wonder if part of the problem is that "SCSI Disk Support" is compiled directly into my kernel, instead of being modular. I did that 'cause I need to boot off of scsi, since the ATA doesn't work. Hints from old mailing list postings suggest loading sd_mod AFTER loading sbp2 -- but I don't think I can do that, can I?!? Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty lost at this point. Thanks for the help, Matt
