Hello guys I could really do with your help.

I have an external firewire drive that is only mounted when my backup script is run.

Couple weeks ago the power went off and the system remained running because its on a UPS.

The external drive is not on the UPS so the system persisted to write the backup to the local disk hence filling the disk and bringing the system to an almost full hailt.

I was left with no chice but to physically power off the machine and reboot manually.

When the system came back up i deleted the backup files on the local disk and attempted to remount the external firewire drive tosee how much of the backup had been completed when the system failed.

Ever since then I have been trying to get it mounted but It just wont through the firewire connection.

I think powering off the system ofr the drive disappearing caused some sort of file to fail because it was not correctly unmounted.

here is what I get from the log files when I plug in the external drive via the firewire connection.

kern.log
Sep 29 16:22:17 rzepecki-04 kernel: scsi14 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
Sep 29 16:22:38 rzepecki-04 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out
Sep 29 16:22:38 rzepecki-04 kernel: sbp2: probe of 0030e001e000009d-0 failed with error -16


messages.log
Sep 29 16:22:17 rzepecki-04 kernel: scsi14 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
Sep 29 16:22:38 rzepecki-04 kernel: sbp2: probe of 0030e001e000009d-0 failed with error -16


syslog
Sep 29 16:44:25 rzepecki-04 kernel: scsi14 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
Sep 29 16:44:46 rzepecki-04 kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out
Sep 29 16:44:46 rzepecki-04 kernel: sbp2: probe of 0030e001e000009d-0 failed with error -16


I am running debian 3.x with 2.6.8-2-686 kernal

Can someone please teach me what I need to do to correct this. I have looked on this forum and found issues very simular but the solutions did not work so I am at a loss what else I need to do.


Thanking you in advance.

Can anyone help me with this?