Bill Nottingham wrote: > > David Brownell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Looks like a promising direction, especially if (as you'd > > suggested offline) very similar models can work for IDE. > > > > What would the job of /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent be? I'm not > > quite clear -- modprobe "sd" or "sg"? Mount partitions > > in the appropriate filesystem locations? > > - modprobe whatever scsi modules are appropriate > - create appropriate mount points & entries in /etc/fstab > - signal whatever thing is creating desktop icons to add new ones > (if it's not watching /etc/fstab) > > We've got something here that we're using to do the second > of these; it is currently getting called on pcmcia/usb events > for storage things, but it runs into the problem that requires > this SCSI event system (race between device creation, userland > notification, and partition table reading...) I have added a simple scsi.agent script that modprobes the various scsi upper level drivers (e.g. sr and st) based on the scsi type of the newly added device. See: http://www.torque.net/scsi/scsiinfo.html Can anyone think of a better name than "scsiinfo" as H. Peter Anvin doesn't like it? Doug Gilbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
