[Bug 548513] Re: Some firewire disks not working under 10.04

[Jerone Young]

I've found, what I think, is a good solution to the problem for now.

The hdparm udev rule that is launching hdparm.  What hdparm is tyring to
do is enable ATA passthrough for drives that claim to support it (most
newer drives do). The problem is there doesn't seem to be proper kernel
support or many drives really don't support it.

What I have done is found a way to identify firewire & usb drives and
tell the udev rule to not try and run hdparm to activate ATA
passthrough.

So changing /lib/udev/rules.d/85-hdparm to:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", KERNEL=="[sh]d[a-z]", \
	ENV{ID_PATH}!="pci-*-ieee1394-*|pci-*-usb-*", \
	RUN+="/lib/udev/hdparm"

* This fix does expose a separate issue in udev for firewire drives.
Udev tries to create a second symbolic link causing a kernel warning
from sysfs. The drive works though. Will get this 2nd issue resolved
also.

Also here is a clip from the udev db of how the drive is exposed in udev:
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:0d:00.3/fw-host0/0090a9236e69e657/0090a9236e69e657-0/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sdb
N: sdb
W: 53
S: block/8:16
S: disk/by-id/ieee1394-0090a9236e69e657:0:0
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:0d:00.3-ieee1394-0x0090a9236e69e657:0:0
E: UDEV_LOG=3
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.4/0000:0d:00.3/fw-host0/0090a9236e69e657/0090a9236e69e657-0/host6/target6:0:0/6:0:0:0/block/sdb
E: MAJOR=8
E: MINOR=16
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdb
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: ID_SCSI=1
E: ID_VENDOR=WD
E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=WD\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_MODEL=My_Book
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=My\x20Book\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_REVISION=1028
E: ID_TYPE=disk
E: ID_BUS=scsi
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:0d:00.3-ieee1394-0x0090a9236e69e657:0:0
E: ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=dos
E: UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0
E: UDISKS_PARTITION_TABLE=1
E: UDISKS_PARTITION_TABLE_SCHEME=mbr
E: UDISKS_PARTITION_TABLE_COUNT=1
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/block/8:16 /dev/disk/by-id/ieee1394-0090a9236e69e657:0:0 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:0d:00.3-ieee1394-0x0090a9236e69e657:0:0


** Attachment added: "85-hdparm.rules"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/43360124/85-hdparm.rules

** Changed in: hdparm (Ubuntu Lucid)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Some firewire disks not working under 10.04
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