firewire external hard drive

[bigskinnee]

This was super easy.

I just made sure I had these modules compiled and loaded.
ieee1394
ohci1394
raw1394
sbp2
then added the following line to the /etc/fstab file
/dev/sda1 /mnt/external ext2 user,exec 0 0

make the /mnt/external directoriy (mkdir /mnt/external)

Then use fdisk to create a partition on /dev/sda

Then just mount /mnt/external

A big thanks to the linux kernel ieee1394 team for a great job.

P.S. raw1394 is not needed, but if you have it then you can use gscanbus to show you a graphical picture of your firewire devices.