Bug#441206: linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7: Firewire 400 external HD fails to be recognized
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:41:51PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:21:24PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> ahh just noticed please 2.6.23-rc5-k7 is available and
> will be the updated build tomorrow.
> (shouldn't make a diff with current build)
I installed 2.6.23-rc5-k7 and bingo: the HD is recognized ! Here are the
syslog messages now:
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: scsi0 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: firewire_sbp2: logged in to sbp2 unit fw1.1 (0 retries)
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: firewire_sbp2: - management_agent_address: 0xfffff0030000
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: firewire_sbp2: - command_block_agent_address: 0xfffff0100000
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: firewire_sbp2: - status write address: 0x000100000000
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD 5000AAKS Externa 107a PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Cache data unavailable
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte hardware sectors (500108 MB)
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Cache data unavailable
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Sep 7 13:01:17 monk kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> also you can now load
> modprobe firewire-sbp2 workaround=1
> to enable some workarounds that were in the old sbp2 driver.
I tried that but the module wasn't loaded. Here's the error message
(from dmesg):
firewire_sbp2: Unknown parameter `workaround'
Thank you very much, Maks, for the speed-lightning responses and the fix
!
Paulo
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