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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robin Cornelius wrote: > On 9/1/06, Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 1. Simple I hope. I have an external Firewire HD. How do I mount >> this please so that Linux sees it when it is plugged in, and not when >> it isn't? At the moment Linux see it not at all. > > Do you see anything in syslog (tail -f /var/log/syslog) or kernel > message buffer (dmesg) when you plug in the device NATALIE:/home/julian# tail -f /var/log/syslog tail: error reading `/var/log/syslog': Is a directory tail: /var/log/syslog: cannot follow end of this type of file; giving up on this name tail: no files remaining NATALIE:/home/julian# NATALIE:/home/julian# dmesg is long - I'll try to snip as much of what looks irrelevant to me :) NATALIE:/home/julian# dmesg ohci1394: $Rev: 1223 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx> [left this because it mentions 1394] ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:01:0a.0[A] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[e6011000-e60117ff] Max Packet=[2048] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 3 devices found SCSI subsystem initialized ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00110600009999d6] [same with this one] NTFS driver 2.1.20 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. [drive is formatted NTFS - at the moment - so this may be relevant, although two other partitions internally are anyway] NTFS volume version 3.1. NTFS volume version 3.1. <snip> NTFS-fs warning (device hdc5): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future. NTFS volume version 3.1. NTFS-fs warning (device hdc6): parse_options(): Option iocharset is deprecated. Please use option nls=<charsetname> in the future. NTFS volume version 3.1. <big snip> agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:02:00.0 into 8x mode drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found Nvsound: Unable to change the Playback SampleRate 44100, set back to 48000 Nvsound: Unable to Create a NewStream for apu Nvsound: Unable to allocate the wave device Nvsound: Unable to change the Playback SampleRate 22050, set back to 48000 *last line repeats ad finitum* > >> 2. More difficult probably. I have a Dazzle DV Bridge for A/V >> capture. It connects by Firewire and Windows XP sees it OK - caveats >> about Windows XP being flaky with Firewire apply, but when it sees it >> the device works properly. I have Googled to try and find out how to >> get Linux to see the device - I have installed dvgrab but that says >> 'no such file/handle'. > > Again anything appearing in syslog or using dmseg This added to the end of the previous dmesg when I plugged the Dazzle in: ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000 compliant, resetting... ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0003f30000005f96] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 ieee1394: unsolicited response packet received - no tlabel match ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized I figured lsmod may be useful to show you as well (snipped for relevancy again): Module Size Used by raw1394 31724 0 dv1394 21068 0 ohci1394 33924 1 dv1394 ieee1394 318772 3 raw1394,dv1394,ohci1394 Kind regards, Julian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE+FTdjs/5IBdCO1ERAphqAJ9pbIAhCyY8lFKDzNpXw08ctrKzBgCghoaS CdXF0+oqigFOCT9gQXRziWk= =vuNx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html