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On Tue, 16 May 2006 11:28:17 +0100, Stroller wrote: |
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> Can anyone give me some quick pointers to mounting an external |
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> firewire drive under Gentoo, please? |
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Is the ohci1394 module loaded? Do you have hotplug support in your kernel? |
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y |
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> I thought that under udev, the kernel was supposed to be quite clever |
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> about recognising devices. Do I need to emerge coldplug, or is there |
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> anything else I can do to help things along? |
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> If I boot from a LiveCD or Knoppix these are always very good about |
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> finding all the devices in the system and making a mount point for |
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> them - are there any utilities for my installed Gentoo system that |
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> will do similar. |
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Udev should recognise the drive and create a device node, but creating |
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mount points is not udev's job. You need a device manager for that. If |
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you use KDE, especially 3.5, it should handle it for you, provided you |
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have the hal USE flag set. With other WMs, use ivman. |
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You don't need a specific udev rule to use a fwdisk, but it does make the |
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naming of the device, and the mount point, more consistent. I use this |
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rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-udev.rules, but you'll need to change the |
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model_id value, unless you have the same enclosure as me. |
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BUS=="ieee1394", KERNEL=="sd?1", SYSFS{model_id}=="0x008034", NAME:="fwdisk", SYMLINK="%k" |
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Neil Bothwick |
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