[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[Robert L. Harris]

Nice, hadn't seen that one, I'll give it a run tonight.

Pendrive.com has models going up to 2GB drives in a USB2.0 interface.
Only problem is it's $1200 (or is that Euros?).  I think the 256Meg at
$99 is more likely for my next generation, unless prices drop
drastically in the next 6 months.  (my 32Meg is almost full :> )





Thus spake James P. Kinney III (jkinney at localnetsolutions.com):

> 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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Diagnosis: witzelsucht  	

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