[lug] Firewire, Linux and 8mm Firewire tape drive

[Taz]

Have you tried any other firewire apps?  Does the user in question have
permissions to r/w/x to the firewire ports???
I haven't had time to try the tape back up stuff yet, but  I hope to soon.
Jeff



Graham Squire wrote:

> This one might be out there:
> Has anyone ever heard of using an Ecrix Firewire tape drive in Linux??
> I'm running RH 7.1 and I've compiled 2.4.6 for Firewire support. I have a
> Keyspan Firewire card using an OHCI compliant chipset and I am able to get
> the card and the drive seen. I look at dmesg and see a bunch of ohci1394 and
> ieee1394 entries with no real errors and they read "ieee1394: including
> selfid 0x...." These messages indicate the completion of each node's SelfID
> process and acceptance by the ieee1394 subsystem.
> Also I can look at /proc/ohci1394 and see that there are 2 nodes (card and
> drive), but I don't know how to access it. tar just errors out and I can't
> seem to find any applications that might be able to take advantage of this
> configuration.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Graham Squire
>
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