From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051018 Fedora/1.7.12-2 Description of problem: No detection occuring for external firewire devices. Specifically the proper kernel modules aren't properly loading. The entries in modprobe.conf are also missing. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1756_FC%5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attach Sony DRX 710UL external firewire drive to any ieee1394 port 2. no detection 3. Actual Results: Firewire drive isn't detected Expected Results: hotplug should detect the drive Additional info: Work around: 1. Add the following to /etc/rc.local `modprobe ide-scsi` and `modprobe sg` 2. Then add "alias scsi_hostadapter2(3,4,5) sbp2" to modprobe.conf, reboot and voila Sony firewire external drive DRX 710UL DVDRW works!
there should be no need for entries in modprobe.conf as the hardware setup will change and your scsi_hostadapter may be a usb device. the config needs to happen dynamically on insertion and at boot time. without anything in /etc/rc.local and modprobe.conf does anything show in dmesg on insertion of the device?
Set in /etc/udev/udev.conf: udev_log="info" then attach the firewire drive. Please report /var/log/messages.
Now working as it should with latest dev update of udev-077-1