Firewire HDD

[palmem]

I have:
PCMIA Firewire + USB2 Card
Maxtor 160GB Firewire/USB HDD (External)
Mandrake 10

Both work together with windows, so it's not hardware

I have a mouse plugged into the PCMIA card, so it works with linux (at least USB does)

The HDD will connect to a USB2 port in the back of my computer, but I need both of those, so I can't exactly do that

When I start it up, the HDD shows up (/mnt/removable), but when I click into that nothing shows up...

I have searched, and found www.linux1394.org, forget which, but that seems a little over my head (i'm a newbie)

Thanks
-palmer

[kkubasik]

try opening a shell and logging in as root, then acessing the drive by
cd /mnt/removable
Also, is the drive in a linux readable FS? if its in ntfs, it might be a little sketchy, and your kernel might not have support for it installed.

[castaway]

hi palmem,

same problem here, did you manage to work it out? how?

FS in my drive is NTFS, but there is no problem in reading that as I have a windows partition with the same FS and I can access it.

I'm a newbie too, so ANY help would be really appreciated.

[palmem]

Already tried loggin in as root and checking it out...

It's FAT32

-palmer

[palmem]

anyone?

[ihaveebola]

I have a very similar problem with my firewire devices. I have an external drive that has both firewire and USB connection. The system doesn't respond at all when I plug into either the computer's firewire or mini firewire ports but the drive pops right up when connected with USB. The drive is formatted Fat 32 and I acess it from both windows and Apple machines via firewire. And the windows Boot is on the same box as the linux so I know those same firewire ports work under windows.

I'm a linux noob, and have just installed Mandriva 2007 a few days ago to check it out for potential freevo use.

any info would be greatly appreciated.

I also am trying to switch from mirroed multiple displays to separate but I'll post about that elsewhere.

Thanks