On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:08:48 -0500, ceed <cdysthe@punkass.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I got a external disk to mount on my Mandrake 10 laptop by enabling pcmcia
>and modprobing the needed
>modules. I then mounted it with Mandrake Control Center. I formatted the
>disk and started using it.
>However, this being a laptop I would like to be able to get to my office,
>plug in the pc card, and
>have the disk mount as needed. I am not able to figure out how to have the
>card automatically detected
>when I put it in, and the mount the disk when it's found (kind of what
>happens when I put my wireless
>network card in the pcmcia slot). Could someone please point me in the
>right direction?
>
>TIA for help and/ or pointers.

Hi,

Look at updfstab. This might do the job if the PCMCIA Firewire device
is mapped to a SCSI device.

Regards
Anton Erasmus