From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 8:41:52 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15A137B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:41:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9258043F93 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:41:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18lXI0-000OCl-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:41:44 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18lXHn-000OCe-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:41:32 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18lXHj-0001eV-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:41:27 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18lXHi-0000E0-00; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:41:26 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: "Brian Henning" Subject: Re: usb zip drive Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:41:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302191841.25954.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18lXHn-000OCe-00*g5EyJrFV6PI* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your drive should be recognized by umass, you'll be able to view the device name it is assigned in the output form dmesg. All you should need to do is create an entry for it in /etc/fstab On Wednesday 19 February 2003 18:36, Brian Henning wrote: > after i boot my machine i would like to attatch a usb zip drive. does > freebsd scan for new hardware when it is plugged in or is this a manual > process? if so what tools are out there to perform these tasks? > > cheers, > b > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message