http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4138
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-23-09 21:51 ------- Nicolas, Regarding your comment about removing sbp2 from /etc/modules.conf, it was never in there anyway. Also, pre-install usb-storage /bin/sleep2 doesn't fix the main problem (my #2): Because /dev/sda cannot be "reserved" , then whichever of the 2 external disks I plug in first (after the system has finished booting) will become /dev/sda. But if the mount options in /etc/fstab correspond to the *other* disk, it will cause chaos! My 1394mount script attempts to solve 2 problems, the first of which (with the modprobe/rmmod) is a very ugly hack - and which probaly shouldn't go into the distribution. The cfmount script only solves the "which disk is which device" problem, and I think that Mandrake does need something like this (perhaps in diskdrake) - maybe using ide_info to identify the disk uniquely. Regards Richard -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: External 1394 disks have 2 problems: 1)After the system has booted, one must rmmod all the 1394 modules and then re-modprobe them to get the disk detected. This may be a problem to do with PCMCIA 1394 cards. 2)If there are 2 external removable disks (in my case a 120GB Hard Disk over 1394, and a 1 GB microdrive over a USB Compact Flash reader), then depending on the order in which these are plugged in, either could be /dev/sda or /dev/sdb. This is not predicatable, so, one must distinguish between them before mounting! The URL includes my script (1394mount) to fix the problem. It may not be ideal, but it does work OK for me :-)
