[KLUG Members] Firewire Drive Troubles, SBP-2 timed-out

[Miles Pschigoda]

Ok, so this is the first time I've had a firewire drive enclosure to
play around with.  I'd like to get it working under linux, but I'm
getting "SBP-2 device - login timed-out" errors.  Here are some specifics:

I bought a HD + Enclosure pair from tigerdirect, it's a decent deal for
a 250GB and an enclosure and it was an impulse buy.
http://tinyurl.com/ep49c [tigerdirect link]

As expected the drive, using either firewire or usb, works great under
windows.  The USB works great under linux, which is still no surprise. 
It appears that I've got a Prolific PL-3507 chipset, which other people
have troubles with.  But the other posts I've seen on the internet have
gotten it further then I have, with the kernel actually assigning a sdX
device to it. 

Is this just a case of Hardware not going to work, or am I missing some
thing?  I was hoping some one had suggestions before I go and try to
return this case. 

lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by
sbp2                   20612  0
eth1394                16776  0
ohci1394               28852  0
ieee1394               81336  3 sbp2,eth1394,ohci1394

Same issues if eth1394 is unloaded.

syslog messages:
Mar  6 21:20:43 [kernel] ieee1394: Current remote IRM is not 1394a-2000
compliant, resetting...
Mar  6 21:20:44 [kernel] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node
0-00:1023
Mar  6 21:20:44 [kernel] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
Mar  6 21:20:49 [kernel] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] 
GUID[0511280e00001ad5]
Mar  6 21:20:50 [kernel] sbp2: $Rev: 1306 $ Ben Collins
<bcollins at debian.org>
Mar  6 21:20:50 [kernel] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
Mar  6 21:21:12 [kernel] ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device
- login timed-out