CycoDreamer

Hmmm... Sounds a lot like my problem indeed. I must admit I don't really know the build of my FW-card... I thought it is a standard TI... How did you resolve the problem? I'm curious...

"to disable ipv6 you just add the following line to either /etc/modules.conf for 2.4 kernel or /etc/modprobe.conf for 2.6 kernel. alias net-pf-10 off " hmmmz.... It's still kinda slow... :unsure:

I have that same problem with 10 I read somewhere that it has something to do with the default use of IP v6 packets by kernel 2.6.x With this it tries to connect with these type of packets, but a lot of proxy/dns/firewalls of the worldwide ISP's aswell as alot of personal firewalls block these new types. Then after 20 seconds of timeout MDK10 switches to the old IP v4...and then it connects... So what you notice is correct....It takes ages to connect... even though pinging is fine I'm still figuring out a way to switch of the default setting in the kernel....But haven't found one yet sorry

Hello all, Well... here's an update: I tried the FAT32-way...and failed also.. I tried the mkfs-way, but it says that there is NO device called /dev/sda.... Then I found this site: http://www.linux1394.org I tried several things mentioned on this site. When I try the 'modprobe' stuff mentioned on that site and look at the logfiles, I see a lot of lines which tell me that there are errors involving the sbp2-driver. And also block 0 errors of the sda device. This should imply that there is a physical damage, or not? If this is the case, how can I bypass this problem in linux? Since I am used to OSes which do that automatically for me B) I still think it's weird that Linux detects errors on all 3 drives and windows and macOS have never even mentioned them... But I guess that's life :D greetz, Cyc

Now I'm realy puzzled.... I already tried to format the drive as a linux native partition type (I tried almost any type in the list, including XFS and stuff :lol: ) It keeps telling me that the partitiontable can't be written to disk.... It looks like it's a physical damaged drive (It acts like that anyway). But it is definately NOT a damaged drive. I hate to say it, but windows and even mac OS 9 and 10 have no problem with this drive.... I appreciate all your help, Is there any more forcible way of formatting drives in Linux than the ones offered by the standard mandrake interface. My linux-knowledge is kinda outdated and very limited :D I'm still having fun though....hehehehe (even though my girl-friend doesn't have a clue why I spend all this time on a machine which doesn't want to work'the way I want it to ) can I supply any more info or logfiles or something to help you guyz helping me? In the meanwhile, I'm gonna try to format it FAT32 (YIHAA )

No, I didn't try the FAT32 format-part. Does Linux handle FAT32 better than NTFS? Yes, I tried to format the drive with linux, but it won't let me. It tells me it 'can't write the partitiontable' greetz

Thx, Okay... I think I was a little fuzzy in my previous post (but hey... I'm a windows user...what would you expect ) I'll try to be more clear now. Here's what I did: I had 3 external firewire disks with NTFS partitions on them. When I hooked them up with my newly installed mandrake linux 10 machine, it found the devices and named them as SCSI devices (as you mentioned above) /dev/sda1 .... etc When I tried to mount them (tried it in several ways: manually, diskdrake and two other options I read about on the net...) it tried to scan for partitions on the devices (which took several annoying minutes). Then it came up with the message that the partitions were 'too much damaged to be recognized' and then it would tell me that there were NO partitions at all (so actually telling me that the disks were raw). It knew what the disksize was, so it was correct at some points :P After trying this for a couple of times I tried a different approach. I back-upped one of the drives and UNformatted it with windows (removed the partitions). I hooked it up with linux again. It still saw the device and it still took ages to scan the device. Again it came up with the message that the partitions were unreadable. So now I tried to let Linux have its way and do a format of the drive with a newly created extended partition. When I order it to format it tells me that the 'partition table' can't be written to the drive. The drives are all Maxtor 5000dv drives and linux recognizes them as such... and they are mentioned in the HCL: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php?cat=396 I hope this clears things a bit... greetz and thanx again :D

Hi all, I'm trying the Mandrake (10) installation for the first time since a couple of years and a lot has changed (for the better that is!) I'm used to a lot of other OSes, but I wanted to get rid of Windows as my servers. So I thought I'd install Mandrake. Here's my problem: I got a few external firewire drives, which have been working great over the years (media-storage and backups, etc). But now, when I try to mount them under Mandrake, it refuses to mount them. It told me that the filesystem was too corrupt to handle (but windows had no problem; just simple NTFS). The next thing I tried was removing all the partitions and let Linux repartition the raw disks. It didn't work either, because now it tells me that the partition-table can't be written to disk. Why does it do this? Anyone else having the same problems with external firewire drives? Do I have to do some patching? Try another version of Mandrake? I'm out of options right now... Please help me :unsure: greetings, Cyc