#!/bin/bash
# FireWire probing utility © 2001 Olivier Reisch - doctomoe@imaclinux.net
# Feel free to copy, modify and/or redistribute this program
# provided you don't remove this header and give proper credit.

cnt=0
fail=0

if [[ $1 == "" ]]
then
echo "No target device specified. Should be sda, sdb, sdc, etc., depending on the number of SCSI devices you already have attached."
fail=1
fi

if [ $fail = 0 ]
then
echo "Probing FireWire ports..."
until pdisk -l /dev/$1 2>/dev/null | grep "artition map" >/dev/null || [ $fail = 1 ]
do

if (( $cnt > 0 ))
then
echo "Try $cnt failed..."
echo "Probing FireWire ports..."
fi
let "cnt += 1"

rmmod sbp2
rmmod ohci1394
rmmod ieee1394
modprobe sbp2
sleep 2
if (( $cnt > 4 ))
then
echo "Try $cnt failed..."
fail=1
fi

done 

if [ $fail = 1 ]
then
echo "Failed to load any devices... Please make sure a FW device is plugged in and powered and try again."
else
echo "FireWire device attached to $1, partition map follows:"
pdisk -l /dev/$1
fi

fi