A bit more info about my system; I edited /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire and commented out the blacklist like so it looks like so; #blacklist firewire-ohci Running lspci returns; 10:0b.0 Firewire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 02) lsmod | grep firewire returns; firewire_sbp2 50897 0 firewire_core 79305 1 firewire_sbp2 scsi_mod 196953 5 firewire_sbp2,scsi_dh,sg,libata,sd_mod - aurf