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bizar behaviour from LaCie Firewire disk

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#1

I've got this 250Gb fire-wire disk from LaCie for mac and it works really well under mac osx

the thing is it sometimes doesn't work under ubuntu.

Sometimes, when I put it in, it immediately detects it and mounts it in the /media-dir , but other times it just notices its there and that's all, ubuntu doesn't even make a special device in /dev (normally the disk goes under /dev/sda )

when I check my kernel / system-messages it just says 'hey something happend on your firewire port' (cant give you the specific notification because i am atm in the next 'area' )and that's all

other times it doesn't even notice what's going on in the firewire-area, allthough i clearly hear it (iBook) reacting to the connecting of the disk

it really sucks major ass because i need the disk a lot and now i simply can't rely on it :s

anybody know how i can 'command' my ubuntu into scanning for it on my firewire and then how i can force it to make the /dev/sda ?

grtz mistic

#2

My Lacie FireWire drive rarely auto-mounts, but I've never had it fail to show up in /dev. All I can think of is check to see you've got the necessary modules loaded, do lsmod in the terminal and see if ieee1394 and ohci1394 are in the list. Hopefully someone who knows more about this stuff will post something more helpful than this. 8-[