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bzreed

Member

Registered: 2008-05-15

Posts: 9

attaching a firewire hard drive via rc.local

Hello,

I have a question about modules, firewire and rc.local.

I have an external hard drive connected via firewire. I was not able to connect to that drive immediately following the installation of Arch.

To fix the problem I added (sbp2 - hard disk support) to the file named, /etc/rc.local:
#Begin file
#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/rc.local: Local multi-user startup script.
#
modprobe sbp2
#End file

I also edited the fstab so that mounting would be automatic.  After rebooting I am able to access the firewire drive.
Although it is now working my question is, did I do this correctly?  Or is there a better, more efficiant way to go about accessing an external firewire hard drive?

Thank you for your time and help.

Brian

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: attaching a firewire hard drive via rc.local

Instead of using rc.local, add the module to the MODULES array in /etc/rc.conf.

bzreed

Member

Registered: 2008-05-15

Posts: 9

Re: attaching a firewire hard drive via rc.local

Hi tomk,

I did what you said and everything works great.

Thank you for your time and help.

Brian

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: attaching a firewire hard drive via rc.local

/etc/rc.conf is the principle configuration file for your Arch system. If you are unfamiliar with it, read the comments it contains. You will also find additional details in the wiki.