Still having problems with mount of USB drive at boot time

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 12/14/2010 05:10 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 01:33 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> This is for Fedora 12 and a 1.5Tb USB seagate drive.
>>
>> How do I get this drive recognixzed at boot time?  Once it is set up it
>> is known as:
>>
>> /media/d4ae05a3-c60f-489d-8159-e16c9a271f0b
>
> I've run into that myself, Robert, starting with an F12 kernel.  My
> cheap-and-dirty (and perhaps not recommended) fix was to add:
>
>     rmmod usb_storage;modprobe usb_storage
>
> to the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file to force the unload and reload of the
> USB storage module at the end of the boot process.  It works, but seems
> rather a kludge.

I thought I  would test this out and SSHed into the box and SUed.  Then:

# rmmod usb_storage
ERROR: Module usb_storage is in use


Now what?



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