Help making sense of firewire disk enclosure dilema

[Doug White]

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, George Hartzell wrote:

>
> 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.

Have you tried 'camcontrol rescan X' where X is the appropriate SCSI bus?
(camcontrol devlist -v can help you find the right bus number.)

I have this problem with certain USB key storage devices as well. It
depends on how long the device takes to come ready.  Some are better than
others.

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