Rajko M. wrote:
On Monday 18 June 2007 21:38, Clark Sann wrote:
Just a couple further questions regarding everyones comments....
Regarding etc/modules. I don't have that file. Is that unusual? Can I just create it if I need it?
etc/modules doesn't exist in openSUSE
ls -w1 /etc/mod* modprobe.conf modprobe.conf.local modprobe.d: <here is listing of files in modprobe.d directory>
The recommendation is to put your modules in /etc/modprobe.conf.local, but the /etc/init.d/boot.local works too for simple cases like this one.
With respect to the problems I was having, I recall there was one disk, I think it was a tools disk...it came with the Iomega drive. Whenever I put that disk in and then tried to mount it, something bad happened and it wouldn't mount. Neither would any other disks until I rebooted. I have a hunch it was some weird format, something other than vfat. It has been so long since I had one of these drives on Win, I just can't remember what was special about that disk. I bet that the suggestion to rmmod and modprobe would have worked. Unfortunately, I don't have the drive any longer so I can't test.
Now I know what happened, I'm not so sure that driver reload would work. Maybe.
There must be some trace in /var/log/messages what happened when command mount tried to mount that disk, and that is what you still have ;-)
Just looked at messages. Found a few like this... Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08 Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: sda4 Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08 Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08 Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: sda1 Jun 17 15:38:20 dell8600 su: (to root) clark on /dev/pts/1 Jun 17 15:39:27 dell8600 shutdown[4353]: shutting down for system reboot Notice the "sda:sda1" right before I shutdown. I am guessing that sda1 means a different format than sda4 but a quick google isn't telling me much about the difference. Clark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org