WD 120 gb hard drive in 1394 external enclosre can't be detected

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 10:10, Barry Yu wrote:
> Fc3 failed to detect my Western Digit 120 gb hard drive in a 1394 
> firewire enclosure ( but it works in usb2 mode), the whole combination 
> is : 1394 + usb2 combo pci add-on card, the external enclosere with usb2 
> and 1394 ports. FC3 can detect the pci card, and can detect hard drive 
> when used in usb2 mode.

Try hot-plugging instead of having it connected when you boot.  Mine
works then, but will crash after a short time when the drive is
used in a software RAID configuration with an internal IDE.

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  Les Mikesell
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