I too was experiencing this problem on Ubuntu 10.4 with my Western Digital 500GB My Book external hard drive connected via firewire.
I can confirm that after manually patching the file my external drive is recognized by Ubuntu. (Note: installing Jerone's patch via command line would not work for me) -- Some firewire disks not working under 10.04 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/548513 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs