On 7/30/05, Andre Truter
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.
Follow-up: Something went wrong with the filesystem or disk. Suddenly it would not work under USB anymore - the partition was not seen anymore, under SuSE and Knoppix. Then I connected the disk via firewire under SuSE and use cfdisk to recreate the partition. Then I formatted the partition with ext3. This was all done under SuSE via firewire. Now the disk is mounted via firewire, but I cannot use the disk. When I use the USB cable to connect the disk, it mounts the filesystem and I can create files on the disk as root user. But If I connect it via firewire, I get the following errors: --<snip>-- Jul 31 10:29:07 asterix /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[32423]: new block device /block/sdb Jul 31 10:29:07 asterix /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[32467]: new block device /block/sdb/sdb1 Jul 31 10:29:08 asterix hal-subfs-mount[32482]: registered at resmgrd and called(0) /bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=ext3,sync,nosuid,nodev,exec /dev/sdb1 "/media/backups" Jul 31 10:29:12 asterix submountd: mount failure, Invalid argument Jul 31 10:29:12 asterix kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sdb1. Jul 31 10:29:12 asterix kernel: subfs: unsuccessful attempt to mount media (256) Jul 31 10:29:12 asterix hal.hotplug[32507]: DEVPATH is not set --<snip>-- When using USB, the mount command is the same, except that the device is /dev/sda1 and not /dev/sdb1 Any idea what the problem is, or where I should start looking? Thanks -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~