From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 20:40:45 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 9175516A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:40:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4FE743D53 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-firewire@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B60C3-0000fj-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:40:43 +0100 Received: from ppp-62-221.customer.wingnet.net ([206.30.62.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:40:43 +0100 Received: from jesse by ppp-62-221.customer.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 05:40:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 23:40:33 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 77 Message-ID: References: <87u10itsoo.wl@tora.nunu.org> <87r7vj2c0x.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: ppp-62-221.customer.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: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 04:40:45 -0000 Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > At Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:22:29 -0500, > Jesse Guardiani wrote: >> >> 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. > > Does the laptop recognize powerbook/hub/hdd? Not that I could tell. I was watching my root console the entire time. > The output of 'fwcontrol -t' should help. I tried a `fwcontrol -r` and nothing happened on the root console. I'm not sure if I tried `fwcontrol -t` or not. I'll try that tommorrow and see if I get any different output. > Another possibility is cable problem. > Did you try with several 4pin-6pin cables? Not with the powerbook attached. I went to a local computer store and tried a different 4 pin to 6 pin cable with just the hub, hdd, and my 4 pin laptop. I don't think I'll get a chance to test with another cable either. I guess I need some way to verify that: a.) The port on my laptop isn't bad. b.) The 6pin to 4 pin adapter I'm using isn't bad. c.) My cable lengths aren't too long for some reason. I'll see what I can think of... >> 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? > > I believe many people(including me) use SBP-2 device with 4-pin port. Is there a chance that my hdd is not SBP-2? Could you describe, in detail, the devices you use, including cabling, hubs, and power sources? >> 2.) Does anyone know of a 6 pin firewire cardbus card that works well >> with >> FreeBSD? > > Though there might be some problem with cardbus bridge, > most of the card should work with FreeBSD as far as it's based on OHCI. Yeah. But I'm looking for a specific card so I don't get burnt. Does anyone here have one they like? Thanks! -- 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