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  From: Rick McQueen-Thomson <rmcqt@mcmedia.com.au>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:30:57 +1000

Using ORB drives with Linux

G'day all,

         If this comes through twice, I apologise.  Also, as far as I know
it is NOT in HTML.  I have a small, but irritating problem with getting
Linux to read and write to my Castlewood ORB drive.  The drive is a USB/SCSI
drive, 2 GB, similar to the JAZ drive.  I am running RH 7.1.  The following
commands will get the drive going if you are root.

         modprobe        sg
         modprobe        ide-scsi
         modprobe        usbcore
         modprobe        usb-uhci
         modprobe        usb-storage

         I thought it would be nice to have this process automated and allow
other users than root to access the drive.  I thought if you added those
commands to /etc/modules.conf this might do the trick.

         Unfortunately, reading man modules.conf and man modprobe was
decidedly less than helpful.  I added a little icon and was able to use GUI
in root to mount and access the drive.  After I did this once, I did not
have
to do this again.  This only worked in root.

         Obviously, I need to add the above lines to modules.conf and then
adjust /etc/fstab to accept /dev/sda5 with

    /dev/sda5    /mnt/orbdrive    vfat    users,nonauto    0 0

  Can some kind person please tell me how to add the appropriate lines to
modules.conf or point me to some further reading.

TIA,   Rick McQueen-Thomson


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