Re: USB enclosure?
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 04:24:34AM -0400, Zach wrote:
> I just bought an external HDD enclosure for my old IDE disks so I can
> attack to my laptop using USB. How do I set this up? I will not always
> have the same IDE disk in there when I boot (there are 3 HDD) nor will
> I even have the enclosure connected to my USB port every time I boot
> up. So how do I handle this? I am running 2.6.18 kernel with udev (and
> no I have no clue how to write udev rules and I hope kernel developers
If you have hal installed, you are not required to write any udev
rules, and you may use pmount mount them or use gnome-volume-manager
mount them automatically if you use gnome.
> abandon udev foolishness in the future and return to devfs + some
> extensions heh). What kernel modules will I need to load setup this
> device and do I just add them to /etc/modules, run depmod -a and
> reboot? And then lsmod to verify they were loaded and just plugin the
> drive enclosure? Do I need create a special device for USB? I would
you do not need manually load any modules at all in most condintions.
> like /etc/fstab to automatically load the enclosure drive if it
> detects it was attached on boot up.
>
> Zach
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