Re: External Firewire Drives and Booting up

Thomas Keller wrote:
> Good Morning,
>   I have a Linux box with two external firewire drives hooked up.  The 
> issue I am having is if I reboot or if we are hit by a power outage and 
> I need to bring the system back online, it fails because it does not 
> recognize the firewire drives.  The error message says /dev/sda1 is an 
> invalid block device.  To fix this problem, I just make a copy of 
> /etc/fstab and then remove the entries for the firewire drives, then 
> reboot system.  After system comes back up, I then move the copied 
> version of /etc/fstab back and do a mount -a and the firewire drives are 
> again useable. 

Compare the output of "lsmod" after boot when the problem occurs, and 
after boot when everything's working.  You might want to send your 
/etc/modules.conf to the list.




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