[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[James P. Kinney III]

I'm just now learning some of this, but the hotplug stuff is a good
solution to the autoload problem. It detects the change on the usb bus
and uses the definitions in /etc/hotplug it will setup all the ancillary
stuff (modules, mountpoints, etc)

Hitachi is working an 8Gbit chip to give a 1GB storage capacity. Wow!

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 10:39, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Fail to load.  When I plug in the pendrive it doesn't load
> usb-storage.o, sg.o, fat.o, vfat.o.  I have to modprobe/insmod them
> myself.  I have the same thing when I plug in my Archos Jukebox also
> (USB hard drive).
> 
> 
> I think I probably have something horked in my modutils somehow
> and it just hasn't been a critical problem, just annoying.
> 
> 
> Thus spake Pete Hardie (pete.hardie at sciatl.com):
> 
> > Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > >
> > >Sorry, deleted the original so I'll need to reply here.
> > >
> > >I use a couple of these (one is a backup that has a cracked case) that I
> > >use for storing my gpg keys, password list (gpg encrypted) pics of my
> > >wife, etc.  Works great.
> > >
> > >USB and scsi emulation are compiled into the kernel, scsi generic
> > >device, usb mass storage and the filesystems are modules.
> > >
> > >Steps:
> > >  Physically plug in the drive
> > >  modprobe usb-storage
> > >  modprobe sg
> > >  modprobe fat
> > >  modprobe vfat
> > >  mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/mnt -t vfat -o uid=nomad
> > >  cd /tmp/mnt
> > >
> > >
> > >Works great.  For some reason auto-loading the modules doesn't work
> > >right so I can't put it in autofs.
> > 
> > By 'auto-loading the modules doesn't work right', do you mean that they 
> > appear to be loaded but fail to work, or that they fail to load?  Mine 
> > appear to be loaded ok, AFAICT.
> > 
> > -- 
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> > 
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