I just installed kernel-2.4.20-18.9 from up2date. On reboot, I now
cannot mount my Iomega FireWire External Drive.
# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/external
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
If I reboot into kernel-2.4.20-13.9 then the above command works fine.
At a very rough guess, is it because some ieee1394 code is compiled into
this kernel, whereas it is loaded as a module in 2.4.20-13.9? My only
reason for this conjecture is that when I boot 2.4.20-18.9 I get the
following messages in dmesg:
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:01.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:01.1
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[f8fff000-f8fff7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
scsi0 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: ohci1394)
$Rev: 707 $ James Goodwin <jamesg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
SBP-2 module load options:
- Max speed supported: S400
- Max sectors per I/O supported: 255
- Max outstanding commands supported: 64
- Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
- Serialized I/O (debug): no
- Exclusive login: yes
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[324fc00001363810] [Linux OHCI-1394]
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Device added: Node[01:1023] GUID[00d0b87500007594] [Iomega ]
ieee1394: sbp2: Error reconnecting to SBP-2 device - reconnect failed
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged out of SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node[01:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
whereas when I boot 2.4.20-13.9 there are no ieee1394 messages in dmesg.
Can anyone else confirm or disconfirm similar problems? Does anyone have
any suggestions, or should I just go back to using 2.4.20-13.9?
Best, Darren
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