Bug 28911 - usb disk should be detected like usb keyboard/mouse
Summary: usb disk should be detected like usb keyboard/mouse
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-22 19:49 UTC by Marty Shannon
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-23 00:01:27 UTC
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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.


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