[Firewire-users] Drivers not picked up and Device not seen

Tue May 8 21:45:10 PDT 2007

Good morning ,

I am in the middle of a validation of RAC with logical and physical dataguard with Grid control.

Standard db and data guard + manual setup is ok

GC is now ok

I am now on the RAC part - I am in the middle of configuring the firewire device for the shared disk.

I have read the README and my queries are in line:

To use on Oracle Enterprise Linux 4:

1) Download a kernel module rpm. Make sure your down the right kernel module
   for architecture (i386, x86_64), and processor configuation (UP or SMP).

My RAC conf is 2 x Intel 32bit boxes, TI firewire cards and a Maxtor One Touch 250GB - 

I have installed the latest OELinux 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL
I have then downloaded and installed: oracle-firewire-modules-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-1286-1.i686.rpm <http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/dist/files/RedHat/RHEL4/i386/oracle-firewire-modules-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL-1286-1.i686.rpm> 

Currently up2date would not give me 42.0.3.
I would also have to perform a manual apply as the machines are on an isolated network with no internet.

2) Install as follows, as user root:
   rpm -ivh <filename.rpm>

It installs drivers in /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.3.EL

I have tried the infamous copy.

I copied the files into the /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL directory.

As such an ls shows the kernel/drivers/ieee1394 in my 42.0.0.0.1 kernel's directory structure.

Although I still have no entry at boot in dmesg

3) Load the firewire modules:
   modprobe ohci1394 ; modprobe sbp2

modprobe returns FATAL not found
At this stage I need some assistance as my device is obviously not seen.
Do you have any recommendations?

Kind regards
Peter

   You can also just reboot, hotplug should load the module automatically
   for you.

   This should load the firewire stack and detect the disk. The disk will be
   shown as a scsi device,  /dev/sdXX, if you are unsure which device, the
   dmesg command will show the detected disk. e.g.:

ieee1394: sbp2: Maximum concurrent logins supported: 4
ieee1394: sbp2: Number of active logins: 0
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
  Vendor: IBM-DJNA  Model: -371800           Rev:
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 06
SCSI device sda: 35239680 512-byte hdwr sectors (18043 MB)
sda: asking for cache data failed
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

5) if you wish to use this setup for Oracle RAC, just follow the standard
   documentation for RHEL4/EL4.

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