Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139171
FireWire HDD is detected but not usable
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:12:04 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: When attaching the FireWire HDD I only obtain a few lines of output in /var/log/messages. No device is created, the disk is not accessible. It is a Maxtor HDD in a no-name FireWire-400 enclosure. The FireWire PCI controller stems from Lucent. This is the output of 'lspci': 00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) FW323 (rev 04) I used this FireWire HDD on the same PCI controller a long time ago under Red Hat Linux 9 and had no such problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attach FireWire HDD to computer 2.Power on HDD 3. Actual Results: The following lines in /var/log/messages: Nov 13 17:02:37 localhost kernel: ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3850]: error: unknown bus, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 'ieee1394' Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3850]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/fw-host0/0030e000e0002dac' properly (unknown bus) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost ieee1394.agent[3869]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3861]: error: unknown bus, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 'ieee1394' Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3861]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/fw-host0/0030e000e0002dac/0030e000e0002dac-1' properly (unknown bus) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3865]: error: unknown bus, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> 'ieee1394' Nov 13 17:02:42 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3865]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039) needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0/fw-host0/0030e000e0002dac/0030e000e0002dac-0' properly (unknown bus) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed, please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Nov 13 17:02:43 localhost ieee1394.agent[3886]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x000000/0x000000/0x000000 Nov 13 17:02:43 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized Nov 13 17:02:43 localhost kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> Nov 13 17:02:43 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices Nov 13 17:02:43 localhost ieee1394.agent[3924]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Nov 13 17:02:43 localhost ieee1394.agent[3915]: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x Nov 13 17:03:04 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out Nov 13 17:03:04 localhost kernel: sbp2: probe of 0030e000e0002dac-1 failed with error -16 Expected Results: A device should appear to access the FireWire HDD. Additional info: [root@localhost dev]# rpm -qa --queryformat %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\\n kernel udev udev-039-10.FC3.1.i386 kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i686
I have a similar problem with the following hardware, I can attache the external hard drive, but when I write on it I got I/O error - 00:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems (former Lucent Microelectronics) FW323 (rev 04) - Big disk Lacie 2.6.10-1.741_FC3smp Jan 24 14:58:57 localhost kernel: SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x8000002 Jan 24 14:58:57 localhost kernel: Current sda: sense key Medium Error Jan 24 14:58:57 localhost kernel: Additional sense: Data phase error Jan 24 14:58:57 localhost kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 63 Jan 24 14:58:57 localhost kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 0
I also experience this problem in Fedora Core 3. Using a Lacie Firewire 160Gb Harddrive, standard OCHI firewire host addon card. Here are the messages from dmesg relating to the drive and firewire. ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[5] MMIO=[fb004000-fb0047ff] Max Packet=[2048] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000000000004156d] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[00d04b4a1005dec4] ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting... ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023 ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023 On reconnecting the drive the following messages are added. ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00d04b4a1005dec4] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023 Drive has worked intermittently. Possible after I booted Windows XP, then soft restarted and booted FC3. It does not work after booting Linux, the rebooting into Linux.
Meanwhile my FireWire disk works. I use a self compiled 2.6.11-mm1 kernel and udev-050-9 from Rawhide. A mount point is created when it is turned on and removed when switching it off.
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
I updated to Fedora Core 4 and there the disk works as expected. I tested with the default kernel 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4. A second FireWire-400 enclosure I bought recently also works fine. As far as I am concerned you can close the bug.