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

[Graham Squire]

No, I haven't tried any other Firewire apps as I only have access to the
Firewire drive. This is on a test PC and I'm in as root. As I'm not a
developer, I would think that this would be an attractive configuration as a
Firewire cards are much cheaper than SCSI and if you could hook tape drives
and external hard drives to a Linux box in Firewire fashion........Seems
like a good idea to me.

Graham
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From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
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Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 6:32 PM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Firewire, Linux and 8mm Firewire tape drive


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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