Re: [SLE] Firewire Hard Drive
From: Donald Henson (wepin_at_wepin.com)
Date: 11/08/03
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To: SuSE Linux E <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 12:03:58 -0700
Changing the fstab entry to noauto didn't seem to change anything. I
still had the problem on reboot. I'll have a look at the archives.
Don Henson
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 11:29, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> I use firewire drives on my systems regularly. For exactly the problem you
> describe I have gotten into the habit of simply mounting the drives by
> hand every time I reboot the system. At some point I had a little script
> that automatically loaded the necessary modules and then mount the drive
> when back in 8.0 and 8.1 the modules didn't load automatically. Since 8.2
> (perhaps even 8.1, I forgot) the modules load fine, and in principle it
> should be possible to put the entry into /etc/fstab. Since it is a
> removeable drive and I do sometimes remove it I have not put it into
> /etc/fstab. Furthermore, I believe that in order for it to work properly
> one would have to make sure that the relevant firewire modules are loaded
> *before* the harddrives in /etc/fstab get mounted.
> NOw, to get to your case: I would try to modify the fstab entry to noauto,
> so that it doesn't automatically try to mount it on boot-up. A couple
> of weeks ago we had a similar discussion and you might be able to find
> relevant information in the archives. Then you ought to be able to mount
> it later from a root account simply by a command like "mount /firewire" or
> similar. It might also be possible to write a little script that tests for
> the presence of the drive first and then mounts it automatically if it is
> detected. I haven't looked into this myself. Otherwise, simply mount it
> with mount /dev/sdx1 /firewire (x being a, b, or whatever device it
> usually sits on).
>
> The real problem that I have found when using two firewire drives at the
> same time is that when you take one off, properly unmounted first, of
> course, it messes up the other one which will then choke with a journaling
> error and require you to reiserfsck it before resuming operation with it.
>
> I was hoping that this would be corrected in future versions of the
> kernel. Since I haven't upgraded my home system yet, I obviously can't
> tell. Right now I am having extreme trouble upgrading 8.2 to 9.0 on one of
> my office machines (failed after 3 different approaches). I'll probably
> post a message about that ordeal once I have either solved it or gotten to
> a point where I am completely stuck. At this point I have to admit that
> this upgrade has been the hardest ever since I have bought SuSE (since
> 5.2).
>
> Best regards, Alex.
>
> On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Donald Henson wrote:
>
> > I have a problem with my firewire-connected removable hard drives. The
> > drives were originally used in a Windows XP system but have been
> > reformated using the Reiser file system for use in a SuSE Linux 9.0
> > environment. Once mounted, the drives work fine, mounted one at a time.
> > The problem is more of an irritant than a real problem but I would like
> > to get it fixed anyway. The problem is that on reboot, the
> > firewire-connected drives fail the reiserfsck. I then have to go to
> > maintenance mode, remount the root filesystem, and delete the sda1 entry
> > in fstab. A reboot then works normally except that, of course, the drive
> > is not mounted. One item that may be important is that I originally set
> > up the system with one removable hard drive and then switched to another
> > drive of the same brand and type. And no I don't remember whether the
> > problem first appeared then or not. I was up to my eyeballs in other
> > problems at the time. Second part of the problem...
> >
> > I haven't been able to figure out how to use the mount command to mount
> > the drives. (I could use some help on that, as well.) Thus far, I've
> > been using the YaST partitioner to mount the drive to /external1. After
> > that, everything works until the next time I reboot. I have a feeling
> > that the partitioner is not the correct way to mount the drives but, on
> > the other hand, it should work.
> >
> > Any assistance will be sincerely appreciated.
> >
> > Don Henson
> >
> >
>
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