Hey everyone, long time lurker making first post here.

I am having a weird problem I am hoping you can help with. I have a firewire controller installed in a Toshiba pc I bought some years ago and I have used LVM to create a couple of VG's.

I have connected a bytecc enclosure with a 200 GB hard drive to it and I have created a new PV for my VG and everything is ok. I extended my LV to include the new drive and everything was happy. Upon rebooting though LVM could not initialize the VG because it could not locate the PV anymore. When I go look at the partitions, I don't see my LVM partition on my disk anymore.

If I go through the process again (Setting up the drive to work with my VG) it all works, except for after rebooting where the same problem occurs again.

Here are some details and error messages:

dmesg output when I connect the drive to my system:ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0050770e4000130d]
ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID received, but NodeID invalid (probably new bus reset occurred): 0000FFC0
ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0050770e4000130d]
ieee1394: unsolicited response packet received - no tlabel match
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Vendor: WDC WD20 Model: 00JB-00DUA3 Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
SCSI device sda: 390721712 512-byte hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0


fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049516544 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disk /dev/sda doesn't contain a valid partition table

Unfortunately I don't have the exact messages for LVM since I reduced the LV so that I can access the other files on it. Basically, it would complain that it could not find device with uuid "blah blah blah" and would thus not activate the vg.

One time, I got an error that the controller was removed and then I ran kudzu and the next time if found the partition again and it worked ok.

I am curious if anyone has had success running LVM this way with an external firewire controller and if you have any tips for me.

I'm running Linux 2.6.9-1.667 #1 Tue Nov 2 14:41:25 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

And lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 06)
00:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 06)
00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
00:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Triones Technologies, Inc. HPT302 (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82740 (i740) AGP Graphics Accelerator (rev 21)

So this is what I have narrowed it down to: each time I reboot either my partition is erased or something is causing Linux to not see the LVM partition.

I restored my cfg back to one that indluded the "missing" drive and did a pvcreate to restore it to UUID (needed -ff option). With the drive now back in the VG, I rebooted and the same thing happened again! No partition listed by fdisk -l. Please, please, any ideas?