[wellylug] mounting a firewire ext HD

[E.Chalaron]

Hello Pete

> You need to modprobe sbp2 (serial block protocol?) at the very least,
> and if you are running a 2.6 kernel don't expect firewire to work
> solidly. There are a number of serious regressions from 2.4->2.6
> w/regard to firewire (lack of Multi-LUN support so no multi-drive
> enclosures and others). 2.6.11 and they still aren't fixed, though I
> believe there is some progress in the ieee1394 cvs drivers.

I might give a go the CVS then .... but so far the firewire camera I am using 
(not a camcorder) never failed me..

> Let me know if you can't get it going and i will see if i can suggest
> some more things to try.

I most certainly will :-) Thanks a lot for the help
E