[WBEL-users] Backups?

[Vicki Reeves]

James Knowles wrote:
> 
>> Anybody tried firewire hard drives??
>>  
>>
> 
> Yes. No-go. :-(

John may chime in with a correction or two... I'm the less than 
technically ept member of the team.  We use firewire drives for our 
backups.  I can plug one into my WBEL powered laptop and run this magic 
incantation:

modprobe ohci1394
echo "scsi scan-new-devices" > /proc/scsi/scsi
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/firewire

and it does just like a firewire should.

I think John has been fighting a driver issue with a firewire harddrive 
'cage' on his home network so you might look in that direction if you 
are trying to hook up multiple drives.

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