Bug 28911

Summary:	usb disk should be detected like usb keyboard/mouse
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Marty Shannon <martys>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1	CC:	rvokal
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Description Marty Shannon 2001-02-22 19:49:38 UTC

In the same place in rc.sysinit that USB keyboard and mouse are detected
(in order to load modules), USB disks should be detected (to modprobe
usb-storage).  This would allow such disks to be mounted in the normal
sequence at boot time based on their entries in /etc/fstab.  The code is
cut & paste from the keyboard or mouse code.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-22 23:10:03 UTC

updfstab (from kudzu) should write the appropriate entries into /etc/fstab.

Comment 2 Marty Shannon 2001-02-23 00:01:23 UTC

That's fine if kudzu is going to "modprobe usb-storage".  But what happens (as
in a laptop situation) when I boot with drive present, then boot without, then
boot with?  I'm still not convinced that kudzu is the answer for disk-like
devices.  I already have an issue with my Dell laptop when I shuffle a drive out
to put a battery in (usually it's on AC).

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2001-02-23 05:31:20 UTC

updfstab is run on

a) boot
b) hotplug events

Still, perhaps loading usb-storage could be useful. Added; will be
in next initscripts build, but it really should go off to
its own script at some point.