Responses below... On Friday 26 October 2001 10:35 pm, Matthew Dharm wrote: > Umm... what does > > ls -l /dev/sda* > > look like?
[root@localhost]# ls -l /dev/sda* lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Oct 26 05:24 /dev/sda -> scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Oct 26 05:24 /dev/sda1 -> scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 34 Oct 26 05:24 /dev/sda5 -> scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 > Also, "mount /dev/sda" isn't a valid command unless you have an entry for > /dev/sda in your /etc/fstab. From the looks of things, you have an entry > for /dev/sda5 there, so that command _should_ work, tho it doesn't. Yes, ironically enough the entry (/dev/sda5) in my fstab was put there by the Mandrake installation which saw my drive during the install. But, it hiccops during bootup now saying it can't mount the drive (prob cause sd_mod and usbinterface aren't loaded at that point, so I set it to noauto and load it manually later). Once I load sd_mod after bootup, life is good. Anyway, here is the appropriate part from /etc/fstab: /dev/sda5 /mnt/orb vfat user,noauto,dev,suid,rw,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 I am thinking that probably the only way to get the drive to automount at bootup (which isn't really a big deal) is to probably recompile the kernal with the appropriate pieces in the kernel instead of modules. It seems like there should be a step after the usb loading step that then goes through and mounts any usb devices that look like mass storage devices. But in my cursory reads through the init scripts, this doesn't appear to happen. I've been mucking around some of the usb tools and there appears to be a way to set up agents or scripts that will fire when a specific device is noticed on the usb bus. This would be ideal because then, we could do a mount of the device when it is plugged in. I expect it probably wouldn't work so well to go the other direction (unmount when unplugged, this prob still has to be a manual step for syncing purposes). > alias block-major-8 sd_mod.o > > might help also. However, if it does, then that's a sign that your > modutils are out of date and should be upgraded. Yep, that did it. I had added this before and things weren't working for other reasons, so I removed it. But I put it back and now I can mount /dev/sda5 and sd_mod is automagically loaded. Cool! I am at the latest version of mandrake, so it seems a little strange that the modutils would be out of date, but I'll look into that. Thanks once again for your assistance Matt. -Chris _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
