[tlug] Detect firewire drive

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

My recent rant against FC5 didn't get any responses to the seed problem
that triggered the rant. So I thought I'd ask again, calmly and without
emotion ('cos the cursed ***** thing still doesn't ***** work).

I have a firewire DVD writer. As it is triggering the FC5 udev bug I
plugged it into my server which is still running FC4. I switched it on
and rebooted. Burnt my backup DVD. All is hunky dory.

Now, though I switched it off, that server hasn't been rebooted. But
when I switch the drive back on it is not detected. Well, it almost is,
as I get this in the log:
 kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023

I tried everything I know, which only amounts to two things:
  1. echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" >/proc/scsi/scsi
  2. kudzu

The scsi command did nothing as expected; I think it was something that
only worked back on FC3, or maybe never worked.

After kudzu I got:
 ieee1394.agent[22471]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x

This all looks like an unsupported or broken device, but then why does
it get detected okay if I do a reboot?

Is there some "service nantoka restart" command, or similar magic, I can
run?

Darren