Can't mount external FAT32 HDD with FC7

[dbnakuru]

Since upgrading to FC7.
Dual boot windoz XP
Inspiron 8200 1Gb memory nvidia graphics
using kernel 2.6.22.5-76.fc7

I have been unable to mount my external seagate 300GB HDD. It mounted fine using either usb or firewire under FC4/FC5. It still mounts fine using gparted0.3.4-8 CD (seems to use the old firewire stack) and windoz XP.

I've got other external drives that do mount (though firewire seems more problematic under FC7 is there a rpm for the old firewire stuff?) In fact I have a duplicate drive that mounts fine even using firewire and the only difference is it's formatted ext3 instead of FAT32.

Here is the output from dmesg

firewire_core: created new fw device fw1 (0 config rom retries)
firewire_sbp2: logged in to sbp2 unit fw1.0 (0 retries)
firewire_sbp2: - management_agent_address: 0xfffff0030000
firewire_sbp2: - command_block_agent_address: 0xfffff0100000
firewire_sbp2: - status write address: 0x000100000000
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access-RBC ST330083 1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 586072368 512-byte hardware sectors (300069 MB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 586072368 512-byte hardware sectors (300069 MB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 11 00 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
sdb: sdb1
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 14
firewire_core: phy config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
firewire_sbp2: management write failed, rcode 0x12
firewire_sbp2: reconnected to unit fw1.0 (1 retries)
firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb
firewire_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
firewire_sbp2: status write for unknown orb

[dbnakuru]

I have a desktop system with dual AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 in it which I've also now upgraded to FC7 and it is able to mount the FAT32 formatted drive using firewire. If it didn't work with older distros and windoz on my laptop I would expect a hardware problem in the firewire driver.

Also note the drive won't mount using usb either either through the usb 2.0 pcmcia card or the usb 1.0 port on the laptop running FC7 anyway.

[dbnakuru]

I've downgraded to the old firewire stack and all is well again. I hope the old stack hangs around until the new one works better.