[TriLUG] USB II

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:16:54AM -0500, Jeff Bollinger spoke thusly:
> Ok, so I plugged my external USB hard drive in and /var/log/messages
> reports the following:
*snip*
> Apparently it views the drive as SCSI?  Does that mean I should add an
> entry to /etc/fstab for something like /dev/scd0?  I'm still not sure if
> the drive is mounted (probably not) and if I need to create a mount
> directory...

AFAIK, there is no support to auto-mount USB mass storage devices "out
of the box" - just as there is no support to auto-mount floppy disks,
zipdisks, or PCMCIA Drives.

However, you should be able to create an entry in /etc/fstab to do the
job for you, if it is consistantly registering the device as the same
drive in /dev (i.e. if you have a USB Mouse and the drive plugged in,
is the drive a differnet device if it was added second?) every time.

HTH...

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