(MORE INFO) Ext firewire drive not mounted after update

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 13), Robert said:
> On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:39 -0600 Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> > In the last episode (Nov 13), Robert said:
> > > On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:01:47 -0800
> > > Robert <traveling08 at cox.net> wrote:
> > > It appears that some thing is amiss with the latest version. I will
> > > download the latest livefs iso and see if that works.
> > 
> > I think I remember seing a posting within the last few days saying that
> > the "sbp" device wan't going to be compiled into the 8.0-release kernel
> > due to it causing hangs on boot.  If you run "kldload sbp" as root after
> > the system has booted you should see your disk devices appear.
>
> Thanks for responding. I checked and the "sbp" device is in fact commented
> out.  I do remember a thread a month or two back about some folkes having
> trouble with firewire drives.  I never experienced any trouble on of that
> trouble on this system.
> 
> I can continue to operate my drive on USB but I may need firewire in the
> near future.  I have a friend who is a photographer and I archive her
> photos for her.  She sends me an external drive or two and I burn her
> projects onto DVD.  I am not sure if her drives have an USB connector.

Note that you can still run "kldload sbp" after bootup to see fireware
disks.  You can also try adding "device sbp" back to your kernel config and
see if it works for you.  The hangs apparently only happen on certain
motherboards.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com