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I"m working on setting up a RAC system using a shared firewire Maxtor Onetouch drive. But I just can't seem to get my node 2 to detect my firewire Maxtor onetouch 3. While both machines are different, they both have the same OEL, same RPMs applied, same cable, same FW card, same shared drive.

Please, I welcome any suggestions from the experts here as well as any leads as any other support forums I can get help from. Thanks a bunch.

Here are the specifics:

Working node 1 (new machine)
AMD 64 chip
Dell mobo
SIIG 800 PCI-32T
Firewire 800 cable to Maxtor

Non-working node 2 (old, old machine)
Celeron
VIA P4PB400 mobo
SIIG 800 PCI-32T
No usb used on this machine
Same Firewire 800 cable to same Maxtor

So far, I've done the following:
- SIIG firewire card can be seen but no drives on it
- Restart everything umpteen times
- Disabled onboard mobo's firewire module via mobo jumper
- Boot up with hugemem, smp or regular kernel
- Recompiled the firewire rpms for this machine (same)
- Recompiled the firewire rpm into the regular 2.6.9.42.0.0.0.1-EL kernel
- Used the firewire rpms from node 1 for each of the kernel version (same)
- Disconnected the Maxtor EIDE card and just ran a single HD off the mobo just in case there was a conflict (I had to reinstall OEL onto just one HD)
- Swap the SIIG FW cards, (they both worked in node 1)
- Swap the FW 800 cables (they both worked in node 1)
- Modprobe successfully umpteen times
- Kudzu never starts with bootup but does run in command line (still not detecting Maxtor though)
- /proc/scsi/scsi never got created nor does /proc/scsi
- fdisk never ever showed the Maxtor Onetouch
- I created /proc/scsi/scsi but nothing got updated

I am so lost now it's not even funny anymore.
I am open for suggestions.
In fact, I'm going to try using FW 400 just to see if that worked !!
Maybe there's a compatibility issue going here.

lspci
...
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
...

cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:

dmesg | grep sbp2
sbp2: $Rev: 1265 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>

lsmod | egrep "ohci1394|sbp2|ieee1394|sd_mod|scsi_mod"
ohci1394 35784 0
sbp2 24076 0
scsi_mod 123213 1 sbp2
ieee1394 298228 2 ohci1394,sbp2

fdisk -l (only regular IDE stuff showing up)
Disk /dev/hda: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 24792 199037317+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 30401 244196001 8e Linux LVM