[CentOS] lacie drive and CentOS 5.3 question...

Mon May 25 23:15:56 UTC 2009
Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org>

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:05:44PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>> At Mon, 25 May 2009 14:25:18 -0700 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 05:20:25PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
>>>
>>>> What are the kernel versions?
>>>
>>> CentOS kernel:
>>>
>>>   2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.centos.plus
>>>
>>> Fedora 10 kernel:
>>>
>>>   2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686
>>
>> It could just be a kernel bug that RedHat didn't back port (or one that
>> can't be backported easily).  Or just a driver update (eg adding a few
>> lines to a driver scan structure) that has not been backported yet.
>>
>> You could get the kernel sources for both kernels and compare the
>> relevant .c and .h files and possibly patch the centos.plus kernel and
>> rebuild it.  Probably not for the faint hearted...
>>
>> It might also be possible to install the FC10 kernel itself...
>
> Actually, looks like I got it working.  And I was way off on a wild
> goose chase.  Turns out that after performing this[1] procedure, the
> drive is recognized correctly by CentOS.
>
> Well I learned a little bit more about how udev works at least. :-)
>
> Now my lsusb looks like the following:
>
>  Bus 001 Device 024: ID 059f:0527 LaCie, Ltd
>  Bus 001 Device 016: ID 0451:6250 Texas Instruments, Inc.
>
> (One drive I still need to "reset").
>
> Sorry for the noise all.

And what was that Texas Instruments device that does not show up on Fedora ?

I am intrigued ;-)

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