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butters Guru


Joined: 13 May 2002 Posts: 427 Location: Poughkeepsie, NY
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:33 am Post subject: USB mass-storage hotplug issues |
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I run 2.6.8-rc2-love3 with USB mass-storage and scsi disk support compiled as modules. I created a hotplug rule /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage that should run when the usb-storage module is loaded. In this script I mount /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/dcam. I changed the permissions of this script to a+x to allow execution by anyone. However, I get no indication that the script runs and the volume never mounts.
The usb mass storage works manually, i.e. I plug in the camera and I can do
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/dcam
And I could solve the problem by putting this in my /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/dcam vfat users 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/dcam vfat users 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/dcam vfat users 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/dcam vfat users 0 0
...because each of the ports on my USB hub get a different sd device node. But I don't want to rely on this ugly hack.
Is there something I'm missing, or possibly an easier way to get the camera's Smart Media device to mount when connected? This machine runs GNOME, but I haven't found any GNOME panel for mounting hotplugged storage volumes. Does something like that exist for GNOME? Is there a way to configure gnome-vfs to fix this? _________________ If tugboats were bigger, they'd be the ones getting tugged. |
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oumpah-pah Guru


Joined: 18 Jul 2004 Posts: 575 Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
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Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:46 am Post subject: |
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I think udev is what you're looking for. It can give your device the same name, no matter where or when you plug it in. And it can even run any script as soon as your device is detected.
See Decibels udev setup and writing udev rules for more info. |
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