Problem
FW400 external drive will not mount on system reboot. FW cable needs to be disconnected and reconnected post login or boot for the drive to be recognised and mount correctly.
Drive has no faults, and functions correctly with no errors after it is detected and mounted by system post disconnect and reconnect of the cable.
Overview
- Using 11.04, all latest packs/patches/updates installed,
- Disk is a LaCie d2 Quadra 1Tb
- Connecting via FW400 port on main motherboard
Configuration
- Device: /dev/sdg1 (device path stays constant)
- Mount point: /media/simmer-g_
- Partition type: HPFS/NTFS (0x07)
/etc/fstab configuration
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sdc6 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdc1 during installation
UUID=aef52866-0a45-42a5-b05c-e935ee40dd7c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/simmer-f ntfs nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/sdc5 /media/disk-1 ext2 users,user_xattr,user 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/simmer-e ntfs nls=iso8859-1 0 0
