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