{"id":141,"date":"2003-11-14T19:01:44","date_gmt":"2003-11-15T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=141"},"modified":"2003-11-14T19:01:44","modified_gmt":"2003-11-15T00:01:44","slug":"tip-getting-a-firewire-drive-to-automount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/141","title":{"rendered":"tip: Getting a firewire drive to automount"},"content":{"rendered":"

These instructions apply to fedora core 1.
\n
\ndevlabel is your friend. With hot-pluggable drives, you never know quite where your device is going to end up. You attach your firewire drive to your computer, it might get \/dev\/sda. But if you hook up your digital camera first, your drive will end up with \/dev\/sdb and the camera will get \/dev\/sda. To make things consistant, use devlabel. <\/p>\n

Devlabel creates symlinks that always point to the proper device. So for my maxtor drive with three partitions, I want \/dev\/maxtor1, \/dev\/maxtor2, and \/dev\/maxtor3 to point to the proper devices no matter what order I do things.<\/p>\n

To set up devlabel, plug in your drives and figure out where they got mounted. \/var\/log\/messages is a good place to start. Then type:<\/p>\n

\/sbin\/devlabel add -d \/dev\/sd?1 -s \/dev\/maxtor 1 –automount<\/p>\n

do this for each partition of your drive. The –automount option means that when you plug in the drive, it should mount. <\/p>\n

Only that didn’t work for me. I had to edit \/etc\/hotplug\/ieee1394.agent and change the following:<\/p>\n

add)
\n LABEL=”IEEE1394 product 0x$VENDOR_ID\/0x$SPECIFIER_ID\/0x$VERSION”<\/p>\n

# on 2.4 systems, modutils maintains MAP_CURRENT
\n if [ -r $MAP_CURRENT ]; then
\n \tload_drivers ieee1394 $MAP_CURRENT “$LABEL”
\n fi<\/p>\n

if [ “$DRIVERS” == “” ]; then
\n\tmesg “… no drivers for $LABEL”
\n\texit 2
\n fi<\/p>\n

if [ -x \/sbin\/devlabel ]; then
\n \/sbin\/devlabel restart
\n fi
\n ;;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

to this:<\/p>\n

add)
\n LABEL=”IEEE1394 product 0x$VENDOR_ID\/0x$SPECIFIER_ID\/0x$VERSION”<\/p>\n

# on 2.4 systems, modutils maintains MAP_CURRENT
\n if [ -r $MAP_CURRENT ]; then
\n \tload_drivers ieee1394 $MAP_CURRENT “$LABEL”
\n fi<\/p>\n

if [ “$DRIVERS” == “” ]; then
\n\tmesg “… no drivers for $LABEL”
\n\texit 2
\n fi<\/p>\n

#OWEN EDIT put in bus rescan
\n sleep 5
\n \/usr\/local\/sbin\/rescan-scsi-bus.sh<\/b><\/p>\n

if [ -x \/sbin\/devlabel ]; then
\n \/sbin\/devlabel restart
\n fi
\n ;;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course you need rescan-scsi-bus.sh<\/a>(local copy<\/a>) for this to work.<\/p>\n

This is what worked for me. If you have trouble reproducing my results please reply in the comments and I can tweak the instructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These instructions apply to fedora core 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}