[ydl-gen] hardware probing and external firewire disk

[Cian Duffy]

If you'd read his post, you'd see that this isn't possible, Derick, as
the machine hangs when the drive is powered on at bootup.

However, I have no idea how to fix the problem either, sorry

Cian

On 02/12/05, Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
> Why not write a script for this to be implemented upon boot?
> Or you could modify the standard boot script so that it implements
> this, no?
>
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 4:33 AM, Une bévue wrote:
>
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > i've an external firewire and i want to automount it when powered on.
> >
> > when i mount it manually using :
> >
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb9 /mnt/Fat32  //this is a fat 32 partition for
> > files exchange between MacOS X and YDL
> >
> > it works well
> >
> > however if the external firewire disk is powered on when booting YDL
> > 4.0.1 is hanging undefinitely on "hardware probing"...
> >
> > i'd like better having mounting automayically when powered on...
> >
> > a solution ?
> >
> > my related fstab line :
> >
> > /dev/sdb9               /mnt/Fat32              vfat
> > defaults,umask=0 0 0
> >
> > --
> > Une bévue
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