Firewire drive not showing in devices topic

Hardware:

• Ratocsystems Firedock FR-DK2 with one or two Maxtor IDE drives
• SWEEX PCMCIA card with two USB and two Firewire connectors

Defintely worked in the past: With Hardy, the drives showed as /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc (I think) but I haven't used it for a couple of years

Cannot see the drives now: With either Precise or Trusty (just upgraded) I cannot see the drives.

• I am using the new Firewire stack but I may be loading it incorrectly or in the wrong sequence. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

uname -a

Code:

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3.13.0-45-generic #74-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jan 13 19:37:48 UTC 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux

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lsb_release -a

Code:

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No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:    trusty

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After booting with either one or two drives connected and running, or if I start the drive(s) after booting ...
lspci | egrep 'firewire|ohci|1394'

Code:

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02:03.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
07:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)

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dmesg | egrep 'firewire|ohci|1394'

Code:

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[    1.363013] ohci_hcd: USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
[    1.363017] ohci-pci: OHCI PCI platform driver
[    1.363042] ohci-platform: OHCI generic platform driver
[    2.076154] firewire_ohci 0000:02:03.2: added OHCI v1.0 device as card 0, 4 IR + 4 IT contexts, quirks 0x11
[  17.608677] firewire_ohci 0000:07:00.3: enabling device (0080 -> 0083)
[  17.664133] firewire_ohci 0000:07:00.3: added OHCI v1.10 device as card 1, 4 IR + 4 IT contexts, quirks 0x11

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lsmod | egrep 'firewire|ohci|1394'

Code:

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firewire_ohci          35529  0
firewire_core          61867  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t              12627  1 firewire_core

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modprobe -v firewire_sbp2

Code:

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insmod /lib/modules/3.13.0-45-generic/kernel/drivers/firewire/firewire-sbp2.ko
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'firewire_sbp2': Operation not permitted

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sudo modprobe -v firewire_sbp2

Code:

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insmod /lib/modules/3.13.0-45-generic/kernel/drivers/firewire/firewire-sbp2.ko

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lsmod | egrep 'firewire|ohci|1394'

Code:

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firewire_sbp2          18140  0
firewire_ohci          35529  0
firewire_core          61867  2 firewire_ohci,firewire_sbp2
crc_itu_t              12627  1 firewire_core

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I think I have loaded the neccessary modules correctly above, but please tell me if I have got it wrong.

• Do I need to load some SCSI module?
• Do I need to do something with udev?

However, I cannot see the drives.

ls -1 /dev | grep '^s' | tr '\n' ','

Code:

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sda,sda1,sda2,sda5,sda6,sda7,sg0,shm,snapshot,snd,stderr,stdin,stdout,

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sudo fdisk -lu # shows only my internal drive

Code:

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Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb319b319

  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System
/dev/sda1  *          63    61432559    30716248+  7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2        61433854  156299263    47432705    5  Extended
/dev/sda5        61433856    65339391    1952768  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        94638080  156299263    30830592  83  Linux
/dev/sda7        65341440    94623743    14641152  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

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Apologies if I have formatted this message incorrectly. It is ages since I have posted here I had to register again, so I feel like a newbie again here.
Phil