From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 06:22:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9ACF16A4CF for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:22:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B1443D46 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 06:22:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-firewire@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5mnY-0004YW-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:22:33 +0100 Received: from makrothumia.wingnet.net ([206.30.215.5]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:22:32 +0100 Received: from jesse by makrothumia.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:22:32 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:22:29 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <87u10itsoo.wl@tora.nunu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: makrothumia.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE, 4 pin laptop firewire ports, and 6 pin firewire hard disk drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:22:34 -0000 Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > I think you understand correctly and assume your hub has some problem for > providing bus power. Connect G4 powerbook, thinkpad and 2.5" HDD to > the hub at the same time and see what happens. I did that. Nothing happened. I even unmounted the drive from the powerbook. Interesting things to note: 1.) The hub itself provides ~11.79 Volts across pin 1 and 2 of it's 6 pin connectors. 2.) The powerbook seems to provide about the same voltage, despite that apple's site specifies 25V DC for their powerbook firewire 400 ports: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G5/PowerMacG5/3Input-Output/chapter_4_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000804/TPXREF107 3.) Without the power adapter attached to the hub, not even the powerbook can connect to my hdd. Connecting the power adapter to the hub solves the problem and the powerbook mounts the hdd automatically. 4.) My friend's dell laptop (the one with the known good 4 pin port) can't detect the hdd while the powerbook is plugged in either. I'm about to give up on the 4 pin firewire port that comes with my laptop. So, I guess at this point I have these questions: 1.) Has ANYONE on this list actually gotten a firewire hdd (or cd-rom/dvd-rom, I suppose) to work with a 4 pin firewire port? If so, what hardware did you use? 2.) Does anyone know of a 6 pin firewire cardbus card that works well with FreeBSD? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net