From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3 Description of problem: When trying to use a LaCie external USB HDD the drive is recognised by the kernel, but fails to initialise properly. The kernel reports a series of SCSI errors. 2.6.10 kernels will intitialise the drive and assign a device, but will then fail when trying to mount it. Using the same drive under Knoppix and a 2.4 series kernel works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 and 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Plug in a LaCie external USB HDD 2.Watch /var/log/messages 3. Actual Results: Lots of errors, and a drive which wouldn't initialise or mount. Expected Results: The drive should be recognised properly Additional info: I'll attach the relevant portions of the logs...
Created attachment 113458 [details] Portion of /var/log/messages when attaching the drive running 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp
Created attachment 113459 [details] Log from a different machine running 2.6.11
Just for the record, all machines are fully up to date FC3, with: udev-039-10.FC3.7 hal-0.4.7-1.FC3 hotplug-2004_04_01-8.1
That wild block number is a good hint. I saw it before, but cannot remember where. I thought we stopped supporting the EFI (EPP?) partitioning, which was one thing reading that far. Curious. May I see /proc/bus/usb/devices? It's best to attach it.
Created attachment 115806 [details] Contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices I've now tried this on a new FC4 system with similar results. This file was captured from FC4
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.
Created attachment 116975 [details] /var/log/messages under 2.6.12-1.372_FC3 The drive still doesn't work under the latest FC3 kernel - same kind of errors as before. Most of our machines have now moved to FC4 so it might be easier to change the bug to FC4. I can do occasional tests on an FC3 machine though
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.