From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 23 18:51:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B853D16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:51:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from tora.nunu.org (YahooBB219003182070.bbtec.net [219.3.182.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DAD43D53 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:51:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from tora.nunu.org (unknown [192.168.1.2]) by tora.nunu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AC4A4AC7B; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:51:10 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 11:51:10 +0900 Message-ID: <87r7vj2c0x.wl@tora.nunu.org> From: Hidetoshi Shimokawa To: jesse@wingnet.net In-Reply-To: References: <87u10itsoo.wl@tora.nunu.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 14) (Reasonable Discussion) (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE, 4 pin laptop firewire ports, and 6 pin firewire hard disk drives X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 02:51:11 -0000 At Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:22:29 -0500, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote: > > > I think you understand correctly and assume your hub has some problem for > > providing bus power. Connect G4 powerbook, thinkpad and 2.5" HDD to > > the hub at the same time and see what happens. > > I did that. Nothing happened. I even unmounted the drive from the powerbook. Does the laptop recognize powerbook/hub/hdd? The output of 'fwcontrol -t' should help. Another possibility is cable problem. Did you try with several 4pin-6pin cables? > I'm about to give up on the 4 pin firewire port that comes with my laptop. > So, I guess at this point I have these questions: > > 1.) Has ANYONE on this list actually gotten a firewire hdd (or cd-rom/dvd-rom, > I suppose) to work with a 4 pin firewire port? If so, what hardware did > you use? I believe many people(including me) use SBP-2 device with 4-pin port. > 2.) Does anyone know of a 6 pin firewire cardbus card that works well with > FreeBSD? Though there might be some problem with cardbus bridge, most of the card should work with FreeBSD as far as it's based on OHCI. /\ Hidetoshi Shimokawa \/ simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp PGP public key: http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~simokawa/pgp.html