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

Mon May 25 23:11:17 UTC 2009
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

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.

Ray

[1] http://www.lacie.com/support/faq/faq.htm?faqid=10285