Comment 51 for bug 548513

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Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) wrote : Re: [Bug 548513] Re: hdparm's IDENTIFY DEVICE command breaks firewire devices

Discovery isn't an issue, it's this particular firewire bridge
that gets lobotomized when it receives the larger ident device cmd,
because it fails to implement the spec correctly.

If you run lsscsi -l you'll find that the block device state is
offline.