External Firewire HDD won't mount

[Rubick]

I have an external ieee1394 hard drvie from LaCie.
I am using slackware current / kernel 2.6.9, and I can't mount the drive.
I have everything needed compliled as modules(i.e. ieee1394, ohci, sbp2) When I plug the drive in, this is what dmesg outputs.

ohci1394: fw-host0: SelfID received, but NodeID invalid (probably new bus reset occurred): 0000FFC0
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[00d04b3a1003c276]
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
sbp2: $Rev: 1219 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
Vendor: WDC WD16 Model: 00BB-00DWA0 Rev: 15.0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0

Seems ok ( I think )
I then load sd_mod and this is what dmesg says.

Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0


However, when I try to mount /dev/sda1 it outputs this mesage.

bash-3.00# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist


Any ideas? This is really frustrating.
I would like to continue using the 2.6.x kernel, so going back to 2.4.x is not an option.

[UgoDeschamps]

It shouldn't be your kernel..

if you

fdisk -l

can you see your drive,

are you trying this after the system is booted? sometimes auto-detect doesnt work properly... have you tryed this from an "off to on" mode?

also you could try

mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

to try forcing it to mount (after you've tryed the other... since it tells you it doesnt exist)

can you also

modprobe

to make sure everything is loaded properly...

[Rubick]

I tried that as well.
fdisk -l
returns only internal drive,

 bash-3.00# fdisk -l 

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1         131     1052226   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2             132        3648    28250302+  83  Linux

The drive contains a reiserfs.
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
returns

bash-3.00# mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

same output with fs=auto

I do load my modules with modprobe -a
I tried booting with the drive connected as well as connecting it after the machine was booted. Same results, and same output in dmesg.

I am using a dell inspiron laptop.
I also want to mention that I can mount this drive on my desktop, so there's no problem with the drive itself. This is the dmesg output from my desktop

eee1394: Node changed: 0-02:1023 -> 0-01:1023
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-01:1023
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-02:1023
ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[00d04b3a1003c276]
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login timed-out
sbp2: probe of 00d04b431f051c6f-0 failed with error -16
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023]  GUID[00d04b410e0aad84]
scsi7 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: Node 0-01:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
  Vendor: Maxtor 6  Model: Y160P0            Rev: YAR4
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 06
SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
sda: asking for cache data failed
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
scsi8 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices

I never see :
sda: asking for cache data failed
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

I know the answer is here, I'm just overlooking something trivial.

[Rubick]

I fixed it.
Not sure how this happened, or if it will continue.
I did

ls -l /dev/sda*

This returned all sda devices, except /dev/sda and /dev/sda1.
They were missing. (deleted?) I don't know.

I looked at /proc/partions (after all ieee1394 modules loaded)
returned this.

major minor  #blocks  name

   3     0   29302560 hda
   3     1    1052226 hda1
   3     2   28250302 hda2
   8     0  160086528 sda
   8     1  160079661 sda1

So I did

mknod /dev/sda b 8 0
            mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1

Then issued my mount command and booya!
back in buisness (for now)