<div dir="ltr">I got a WD 1TB My Book with eSATA/USB/Firewire400 connectivity to backup data on a client Centos 5.1 machine.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>So I was hoping Firewire would be faster, which is why we got the version with all 3 interfaces to experiment with first.<br><br>Following the suggestions given to another user here <a href="http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15767&forum=37">http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15767&forum=37</a><br>
<br>I updated the system's kernel to the CentoPlus <br>[noob@localhost ~]$ uname -s -r<br>Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5<br><br>After a reboot, everything appears to work as expected, with the motherboard's TI Firewire controller detected<br>
[root@localhost ~]# lspci | grep 1394<br>04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)<br><br>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.<br>
I've followed some of the suggestions to check the drive status like<br>"fdisk -l" but this only shows the drives already installed in the system<br>"tail -f /var/log/dmesg" shows no new messages when the drive is connected/powered on<br>
<br>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. <br><br>Thanks!<br><br><br></div>