Help making sense of firewire disk enclosure dilema
George Hartzell
hartzell at kestrel.alerce.com
Sat Aug 21 17:22:56 PDT 2004
I have a machine running 5.2.1-RELEASE-p6.
I purchased a pair of "Vantec" USB2.0/Firewire enclosures (NST-350UF)
for some 80-ish GB IBM Deskstar drives.
The first enclosure worked great (once I got past the kernel panic
because it didn't like something that was hanging out in the partition
table area).
The second enclosure was problematic. If I attached via USB1 (all I
have), it worked fine. If I hook it up to a G4 Powermac running OSX
Jaguar (current-1?), it works fine. But when I connect it via
firewire to Servant, GEOM never recognizes/creates a daX device.
I talked the seller into exchanging it for me (and hid a little magic
marker dot inside just in case), and just received the replacement.
It's behaving the same way.
Here's the relevant section of /var/log/messages for the one that
doesn't work:
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=3, non CYCLEMASTER mode
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 0 (me)
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: firewire0: root node is not cycle master capable
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: fwohci0: txd err=1b ack tardy
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: node1: resp=35 addr=0x400
Aug 21 17:03:11 servant kernel: probe failed for 1 node
Aug 21 17:03:17 servant kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset
Aug 21 17:03:17 servant kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=4, CYCLEMASTER mode
Aug 21 17:03:17 servant kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me)
Aug 21 17:03:17 servant kernel: firewire0: bus manager 1 (me)
Aug 21 17:03:17 servant kernel: firewire0: New S400 device ID:0050770e00011205
I then pulled that drive out, and put it in the enclosure that works,
and it appeared as da2. Here's it's info:
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0x8800ffc0, gen=7, non CYCLEMASTER mode
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 0 (me)
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: firewire0: root node is not cycle master capable
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: fwohci0: txd err=1b ack tardy
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: node1: resp=35 addr=0x400
Aug 21 17:11:13 servant kernel: probe failed for 1 node
Aug 21 17:11:17 servant kernel: fwohci0: BUS reset
Aug 21 17:11:17 servant kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc1, gen=8, CYCLEMASTER mode
Aug 21 17:11:17 servant kernel: firewire0: 2 nodes, maxhop <= 1, cable IRM = 1 (me)
Aug 21 17:11:17 servant kernel: firewire0: bus manager 1 (me)
Aug 21 17:11:18 servant kernel: firewire0: New S400 device ID:0050770e00002251
Aug 21 17:11:19 servant kernel: GEOM: create disk da2 dp=0xc4924050
Aug 21 17:11:19 servant kernel: da2 at sbp0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
Aug 21 17:11:19 servant kernel: da2: <Prolific (1394 ATAPI,Rev 0102> Fixed Simplified Direct Access SCSI-4 device
Aug 21 17:11:19 servant kernel: da2: 50.000MB/s transfers
Aug 21 17:11:19 servant kernel: da2: 73308MB (150136560 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 9345C)
Am I doing something wrong, or should I just stop buying cheap
problematic junk enclosures?
g.
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