Problem mounting external firewire drive in Mandrake 10.0 Official

stealthdave · 09-04-2004, 08:04 PM

I'm trying to mount my external firewire drive in Mandrake 10.0 Official with all the latest errata, and it just ain't workin'! From what I can tell, the firewire subsystem just isn't seeing any of the partitions on the drive (there's only 1), so I can't mount anything. fdisk doesn't even see it as a block device! Here's the relevant list of modules loaded:

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sg                     38044  0
sr_mod                 17028  0
ohci1394               33956  0
sd_mod                 16608  0
sbp2                   23336  4294967295
ieee1394              287376  2 ohci1394,sbp2
scsi_mod              114008  4 sg,sr_mod,sd_mod,sbp2

kernel version is 2.6.3-15mdk.

"fdisk -l" returns the following:

Code:

 
Disk /dev/hda: 30.7 GB, 30735581184 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59554 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1       20576    10369926   83  Linux
/dev/hda2           20576       59554    19645258+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           20576       22695     1068291   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6           22696       41167     9309856+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           41168       59554     9267016+  83  Linux
 
Disk /dev/hdb: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
 
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *           1        4867    39088864+  83  Linux

When I hotplug the device, the following devices pop up in /dev:

Code:

# ls -l /dev/sd*
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 33 Sep  4 17:32 /dev/sda -> scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
 
/dev/sd:
total 0
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 36 Sep  4 17:32 c0b0t0u0 -> ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Trying to mount the disk gives me this error on the first try:

Code:

# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/work/
mount: /dev/sda can't find superblock

and this on successive attempts:

Code:

# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/work/
mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device

No /dev/sda1, /dev/sda5, etc., is created at all! The device is formatted fat32 and does mount correctly on my iBook running OS X 10.3.5. I've tried using the rescan-scsi-bus.sh script that's floating around, but it doesn't help. I've searched and googled to my wits end at this point, and could really use some help!

Thanks,
- Stealth Dave

penguin4 · 09-04-2004, 08:29 PM

stealthdave; ? are ur ip tables properly configured? just read about them & seems they are pertinent to firewire properly working. check them out.

stealthdave · 09-07-2004, 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by penguin4
stealthdave; ? are ur ip tables properly configured? just read about them & seems they are pertinent to firewire properly working. check them out.

IP Tables deal with networking and would only be relevant if I were mounting the drive over a network, such as an nfs or smb partition. This is strictly a hardware issue.

- Stealth Dave

penguin4 · 09-07-2004, 03:52 PM

stealthdave; very sorry with my misinterpretation, (firewire card) , but new
research has stated u may have to repartition drive to allow several partitions to accomodate u r entries. could not find pertitent info on ext firewire drv. but know there is i just do not have that in library(mine).
so maybe repartitioning would solve problem? can not hurt to try!