Mounting Firewire and Keeping it

[abacad]

Hi Group,

Having spent days installing my firewire card I would like to keep it.
At the moment it disappears after a reboot and I have to go through the:

insmod ieee1394
insmod ohci1394
insmod sbp2

rescan-scsi-bus.sh

and then 'mount' each partition again, routine everytime.

The device is connected to a Maxtor 60Gb HDD with four NTFS partitions and the options for each one as shown in fstab is:

ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,nouser,async,umask=0 which is the same or similar for the two internal drives.

All ideas gratefully received (or the penguin gets it!!!)

Regards

Jim

[mdwatts]

With my distro (Caldera), I would just add the module names to /etc/modules/default, but most other distros do not have or use this file for loading modules.

You can add

/sbin/insmod ieee1394
/sbin/insmod ohci1394
/sbin/insmod sbp2

/path/to/rescan-scsi-bus.sh

to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

or use modprobe instead of insmod.

Modprobe will also load any dependent modules so you may only need to use

/sbin/modprobe sbp2

and sbp2 will load the other two modules.

Test using modprobe at the commandline first.

modprobe sbp2

and see if the other modules are both loaded.

If not, rmmod sbp2 and then try

modprobe ohci1394

You get the idea...

[abacad]

Thanks for the information, unfortunately I didn't have the same files and directories but at least I gleane enough information to discover that for Xandros, at least, the modules have to be installed in the /etc/devices/drivers file then run a command 'xangenmodules' (generate modules?)

The result is, it works and the penguin has been released :)

Now, about my scanner...................later

Regards

Jim