Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-14 Thread Don Hayward
Hi Graham, On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Graham Evans wrote: On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:30:16 +0200, Don Hayward wrote: ---snip So my questions are: 1) what string substitution do I use to get the needed bit into my command? 2) do I need quoting in the rule? 3) can this work anyway? Thanks for any hel

Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-13 Thread Zach
Sheesh talk about jumping through hoops. Udev was supposed to be so great and make life easier? haha that sure turned out great eh? Give me back devfs! I seriously hope kernel architects drop udev in the future (Please Lord) and go back to the devfs extensions which were already in the pipeline

Re: udev rule writing help needed

2007-06-11 Thread Graham Evans
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:30:16 +0200, Don Hayward wrote: > I have a new Seagate FreeAgent usb hard drive. After install, it spins > down and when one tries to write to it, it gets marked read only. This > can be prevented by running the following command line: > > echo 1 > /sys/class/scsi_disk/14\