firewire hotplugging

Florian Idelberger florian at idelberger.de
Wed Jan 26 19:23:38 UTC 2005


Ziga Mahkovec wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 21:08 +0100, Florian Idelberger wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi everybody, I'm running fc3 quite successful and am very happy with
>>it. However, shortly after the fresh install firewire hotplugging
>>started working, and I can't even mount my disks by hand because there
>>is no /dev/sda<n> created. So I finally came around to look after it but
>>without success so far, and this is what I get in my system log:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Jan 25 21:03:06 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-01:1023
>>>Jan 25 21:03:07 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
>>>      
>>>
>
>These messages might be harmless (at least, I'm also seeing them and
>firewire works mostly fine here).
>
>Check if the sbp2 module is loaded:
>$ lsmod | grep sbp2
>
>If not, load it manually (keep an eye on /var/log/messages):
>$ sudo modprobe sbp2
>
>The recent kernels are very picky about module options, so if you have
>any set in /etc/modprobe.conf ("serialize_io=1" is very common), make
>sure they're spelled out correctly and without any trailing spaces.
>
>Also, you might try experimenting with when the disk is turned on (prior
>to or after the system is brought up).
>
>Hope that helps,
>  
>
1) all modules are loaded, and as I said, it works --sometimes-- (rare), 
although I have to mount manually
2) no I have not specified any options, afaik there shouldn't be any 
necessary
3) at sometime this evening I'll downgrade udev, as Kyrre proposed
but nonetheless, thx for your post




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