More problems with Kernel 2.4.10-pre12 and mounting

Ethan Benson erbenson at alaska.net
Sun Sep 23 17:44:24 EST 2001


On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 03:14:39AM -0400, patrick wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:
> 
> > You could always give up and connect sdb to your 2940UW's internal
> > 50-pin connector instead of mesh.  (only half joking -- I'm under the
> > impression that the mesh driver is not well maintained these days.)
> 
> I wish it were that easy.
> 
> I've just noticed that it not only MESH, but the Adaptec card as
> well.  Which means the problem isn't limited to the driver (MESH or
> Adaptec), and it isn't my own hardware (again, 2.2.x works fine).
> 
> Me thinks it is something to do with the Apple partition map support in
> general.

what happens if you run the following:

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1

i am betting you will get a `No such device' error which means the
kernel thinks there is no second scsi device.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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