I got a WD 1TB My Book with eSATA/USB/Firewire400 connectivity to backup data on a client Centos 5.1 machine.
USB 2.0 works fine out of the box but is rather slow, Nautilus predicts about 1+ hour to fully backup just one day's worth of data or about 100GB.
So I was hoping Firewire would be faster, which is why we got the version with all 3 interfaces to experiment with first.
Following the suggestions given to another user here http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15767&forum=37
I updated the system's kernel to the CentoPlus
[noob@localhost ~]$ uname -s -r
Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
After a reboot, everything appears to work as expected, with the motherboard's TI Firewire controller detected
[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep 1394
04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
However, now I'm stuck as the system does not appear to detect the drive when I connect the firewire cable and turn it on.
I've followed some of the suggestions to check the drive status like
"fdisk -l" but this only shows the drives already installed in the system
"tail -f /var/log/dmesg" shows no new messages when the drive is connected/powered on
So I'm at a loss as to what else I should be doing to get Firewire to work and will appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!
USB 2.0 works fine out of the box but is rather slow, Nautilus predicts about 1+ hour to fully backup just one day's worth of data or about 100GB.
So I was hoping Firewire would be faster, which is why we got the version with all 3 interfaces to experiment with first.
Following the suggestions given to another user here http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15767&forum=37
I updated the system's kernel to the CentoPlus
[noob@localhost ~]$ uname -s -r
Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5
After a reboot, everything appears to work as expected, with the motherboard's TI Firewire controller detected
[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep 1394
04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
However, now I'm stuck as the system does not appear to detect the drive when I connect the firewire cable and turn it on.
I've followed some of the suggestions to check the drive status like
"fdisk -l" but this only shows the drives already installed in the system
"tail -f /var/log/dmesg" shows no new messages when the drive is connected/powered on
So I'm at a loss as to what else I should be doing to get Firewire to work and will appreciate any help on this.
Thanks!
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