On 12/15/05, Damir Perisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > some days ago, i updated to [testing] and some changes made hotplug > obsolete. i read the releated thread in the mailinglists. sorry for > starting another one. > > the external drive, a firewire storage device (driver=sbp2) does not > trigger the module (sbp2) to be loaded automatically any more. > > i do not load this module at boot. the device is powered off at booting > and only when i need to access it, i power it on. then (the behaviour > with hotplug) the module sbp2 was automaticaly loaded and the device node > was created and i could mount it. > > now (udev 076-4 or 077-1, no hotplug), i have to load the module by hand. > this is bad, because you have to be root to load modules...
Does it work fine when powered on at boot? IIRC hwdetect actually does check for firewire devices and specifically adds sbp2 into the loaded modules. It was probably just missed when converting some of the intricacies of hwdetect to udev rules. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
