1394 enclosure refuses to mount

I've had this problem for some time, and originally didn't want to
bother anyone with it, but the behaviour I experience is just so
strange, and maybe there's a very simple solution and I just don't see
it, so maybe you've got an idea, would be really cool.
The machine in question is running stable branch gentoo, with a
2.6.11.4 vanilla kernel, or by choice a gentoo patched version of
this, but they behave the same, so this is just for completeness. When
I plug in the disk (into a pcmcia fw card with a via chipset) it's
detected and /dev/sda, /dev/sda1 are created. When I try to mount
though, mount complains with "wrong fs type, bad option, bad
superblock on /dev/sda1,
       or too many mounted file systems". The problem is just that
none of this is true, windows (for which sharing data with vfat was
used) and in the past other linux configurations were able to access
it flawlessly.
While on search for a solution I read that there are problems with
vfat but this does not seem to be the case for me, the problems of
mount and dosfsck etc. are caused by the malfunctioning access to the
drive.

That it's properly detected can be seen by the following output:
/proc/scsi/scsi
shows:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: WDC WD80 Model: 0BB-55JKA0 Rev: 0.01
  Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

My Kernel log is flooded with messages like the following:
Mar 28 17:24:25 [kernel] ieee1394: send packet 400: ffc0a110 ffc1ffff f0010108 0
0080000
Mar 28 17:24:25 [kernel] ieee1394: send packet 400: ffc0a900 ffc1ffff f0010110 2
0d0dd05
Mar 28 17:24:25 [kernel] ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00000010
Mar 28 17:24:25 [kernel] ieee1394: send packet 400: ffc0ad00 ffc1ffff f0010110 2
0a00f02
Mar 28 17:24:25 [kernel] ieee1394: send packet 400: ffc0b100 ffc1ffff f0010110 2
0b04109
Mar 28 17:24:25 [kernel] ohci1394: fw-host0: IntEvent: 00000010
                - Last output repeated twice -

Thanks in advance florian

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Received on Mon Mar 28 17:55:30 2005