new at firewire on FreeBSD

[John Pettitt]

Richard Bates wrote:

> I have purchased a iogear usb2.0/Firewire combo card Modcel GUF320
>     (marked as supported on the freebsd web site)
>
> I am using a dell poweredge 2450 (17GB internal scsi disk)
> installed FreeBSD 5.4
> Installed the card.
> attached a 250GB external hard disk
> created directory /mnt/firewire
> I tried
>     mount /dev/da1   /mnt/firewire
>     mount /dev/firewire0 /mnt/firewire
>
>
Did you newfs the drive?  /dev/da1 looks right given your logged
messages.  I strongly suggest using glabel to mark the drive so that it
will always show up in the same place.

John