On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 01:15:56AM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > 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 ;-) I can only guess it's the device presented to the OS when it hasn't been unmounted properly... http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tusb6250.html Shows it to be a USB/ATA bridge of some sort -- Texas Instruments. Why Fedora seemed more adept at seeing the device may have been purely coincidence. I'd assume I could get the drive in a funky state so that Fedora only sees this TI device as well... though so far I've been unable to reproduce (on Fedora). :) Ray