[SLE] Problems with Firewire disk in SuSE 9.3

From: Andre Truter (andre.truter_at_gmail.com)
Date: 07/30/05

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    I have an external disk unit that supports Firewire and USB, formatted
    with ext3.

    When I use the USB cable, my SuSE 9.3 laptop detects the drive and mounts it.

    But, when I use Firewire, it gives me various problems.

    At first it would not detect the disk at all.
    Then I booted the machine with Knoppix live CD and it detected and
    mounted the disk without any problems.

    I rebooted the machine with the disk connected and this time SuSE
    detected the disk, but failed to see the partition, so no device was
    created

    Then I switced the disk off and on again and then SuSE detected the
    disk and the partition and tried to mount it, but the mount failed.

    Any idea what the problem could be?
    I googled, but did not find any answers.

    Following are related messages in log file:

    --<snip>--
    Jul 30 19:02:35 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
    Jul 30 19:02:35 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Node suspended:
    ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0050770e00071002]
    Jul 30 19:02:41 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for
    node 0-01:1023
    Jul 30 19:02:41 asterix kernel: ieee1394: The root node is not cycle
    master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
    Jul 30 19:02:43 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for
    node 0-00:1023
    Jul 30 19:02:43 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
    Jul 30 19:02:49 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Node resumed:
    ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0050770e00071002]
    Jul 30 19:02:49 asterix kernel: ieee1394: unsolicited response packet
    received - no tlabel match
    Jul 30 19:02:49 asterix kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394
    SBP-2 Devices
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed
    [S400] - Max payload [2048]
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: Vendor: WDC WD20 Model: 00JB-00GVA0
          Rev:
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: Type: Direct-Access
          ANSI SCSI revision: 06
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte
    hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: 390721968 512-byte
    hdwr sectors (200050 MB)
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: sda: sda1
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1,
    channel 0, id 0, lun 0
    Jul 30 19:02:50 asterix kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1,
    channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
    Jul 30 19:02:51 asterix /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[9945]:
    new block device /block/sda
    Jul 30 19:02:51 asterix /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[10016]:
    new block device /block/sda/sda1
    Jul 30 19:02:51 asterix kernel: subfs 0.9
    Jul 30 19:02:51 asterix hal-subfs-mount[10031]: registered at resmgrd
    and called(0) /bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=ext3,sync,nosuid,nodev,exec
    /dev/sda1 "/media/ieee1394disk"
    Jul 30 19:02:55 asterix submountd: mount failure, Invalid argument
    Jul 30 19:02:55 asterix kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
    Jul 30 19:02:55 asterix kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256)
    Jul 30 19:02:55 asterix hal.hotplug[10053]: DEVPATH is not set
    Jul 30 19:02:56 asterix submountd: mount failure, Invalid argument
    Jul 30 19:02:56 asterix kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
    Jul 30 19:02:56 asterix kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256)
    Jul 30 19:02:56 asterix submountd: mount failure, Invalid argument
    --<snip>--

    Thanks 

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