Rajko M. wrote:
> On Monday 18 June 2007 21:38, Clark Sann wrote:
>   
>> Just a couple further questions regarding everyones comments....
>>
>> Regarding etc/modules.  I don't have that file.  Is that unusual?  Can I
>> just create it if I need it?
>>     
>
> etc/modules doesn't exist in openSUSE
>
>    ls -w1 /etc/mod*
> modprobe.conf
> modprobe.conf.local
> modprobe.d:
> <here is listing of files in modprobe.d directory>
>
> The recommendation is to put your modules in /etc/modprobe.conf.local, but 
> the /etc/init.d/boot.local works too for simple cases like this one. 
>
>   
>> With respect to the problems I was having, I recall there was one disk,
>> I think it was a tools disk...it came with the Iomega drive.  Whenever I
>> put that disk in and then tried to mount it, something bad happened and
>> it wouldn't mount.  Neither would any other disks until I rebooted.  I
>> have a hunch it was some weird format, something other than vfat.  It
>> has been so long since I had one of these drives on Win, I just can't
>> remember what was special about that disk.  I bet that the suggestion to
>> rmmod and modprobe would have worked.  Unfortunately, I don't have the
>> drive any longer so I can't test.
>>     
>
> Now I know what happened, I'm not so sure that driver reload would work. 
> Maybe. 
>
> There must be some trace in /var/log/messages what happened when command 
> mount 
> tried to mount that disk, and that is what you still have ;-)
>
>   

Just looked at messages.  Found a few like this...

Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr
sectors (101 MB)
Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable
Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 17 15:36:41 dell8600 kernel:  sda: sda4
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr
sectors (101 MB)
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr
sectors (101 MB)
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 25 00 00 08
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: cache data unavailable
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jun 17 15:37:31 dell8600 kernel:  sda: sda1
Jun 17 15:38:20 dell8600 su: (to root) clark on /dev/pts/1
Jun 17 15:39:27 dell8600 shutdown[4353]: shutting down for system reboot

Notice the "sda:sda1" right before I shutdown.   I am guessing  that
sda1 means a different format than sda4 but a quick google isn't telling
me much about the difference.

Clark

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