Hi all, This may sound a stupid question, but how are we *supposed* to use a firewire harddrive? I'm now using one without problems, so this isn't a usual "howto" question.
The other day I asked our tech person for an internal ATA harddrive. He didn't have one at the moment, so he gave me a firewire harddrive instead, saying that it should work with my Debian box because he used it with his RedHat box. He added that I could erase any of his files in the drive. I managed to add necessary modules to my kernel by consulting this website http://www.linux1394.org/start_req.php and I saw that the drive was recognized by the drivers, judging from the messages in /var/log/messages. But, # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt didn't work. (The error message was to the effect of wrong filesystem.) I tried "ext2" in place of "vfat" unsuccesfully. Finally, I looked into the disk by fdisk and found that the partitioning didn't make sense to me. The partition boundaries didn't allign with cylinder boundaries; the partition IDs were 53 (Disk Manager 6.0 Aux3), 67 (68 or 69, I forgot which, but it was Novell), and something which wasn't in the ID list (http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html). Hmm. Since the tech guy said I could erase anything and since I was in a hurry, I erased all the existing partitions, created a fresh one, and formatted the disk as an ext2 filesystem. That's what I'm now using. It works perfectly fine. But, since I formatted it as an ext2 filesystem, it won't work with Windows any longer. So, I have a feeling that I did something wrong. What was the "right" way? How do you think the tech guy used the drive? The partition ID 53 (Disk Manager), which I don't know what it is, smells something related, but . . . Additional questions are, what should one do to share a firewire drive between Linux and Windows? What about hotplugging? Thank you, Ryo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
