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02-15-2008, 04:06 PM
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 Re: OSR507: Add then remove external USB hard drive Dave Dickerson wrote: > System: > Gateway GP6-350, > IDE primary master hard drive, > IDE secondary master CD-R, > 128MB RAM, > external USB Maxtor OneTouch hard drive > > Software: SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Desktop with MP1/UP1 followed by > MP3/UP3. > > In playing around with this test system, I noticed that mkdev hd has > options to install the USB drive but not to remove it. > > How does one permanently remove a USB drive from the hardware > configuration after it's no longer wanted? > > I've searched the man pages, onboard help, and online sources, > including SCO's TA area (public & member) to no avail. > > Any guidance appreciated. > > DDinAZ Removing hard drives has always been less than obvious in OSR5. There are TA's that deal with this, but of course they don't reference USB drives specifically. http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105864 http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105052 On the other hand, does it matter? Unless you try to access the device node for the non-existent drive, no harm will come from having it defined. So take it out of /etc/fstab and don't worry about it. -- Tony Lawrence      |
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02-15-2008, 04:06 PM
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| Re: OSR507: Add then remove external USB hard drive On 7 Sep 2004 02:33:43 -0700, "Tony Lawrence" <pcunix@gmail.com> wrote: > >Dave Dickerson wrote: >> System: >> Gateway GP6-350, >> IDE primary master hard drive, >> IDE secondary master CD-R, >> 128MB RAM, >> external USB Maxtor OneTouch hard drive >> >> Software: SCO OpenServer 5.0.7 Desktop with MP1/UP1 followed by >> MP3/UP3. >> >> In playing around with this test system, I noticed that mkdev hd has >> options to install the USB drive but not to remove it. >> >> How does one permanently remove a USB drive from the hardware >> configuration after it's no longer wanted? >> >> I've searched the man pages, onboard help, and online sources, >> including SCO's TA area (public & member) to no avail. >> >> Any guidance appreciated. >> >> DDinAZ > >Removing hard drives has always been less than obvious in OSR5. There >are TA's that deal with this, but of course they don't reference USB >drives specifically. > >http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105864 >http://aplawrence.com/cgi-bin/ta.pl?105052 > >On the other hand, does it matter? Unless you try to access the device >node for the non-existent drive, no harm will come from having it >defined. So take it out of /etc/fstab and don't worry about it. >-- >Tony Lawrence > Thanks for the info, Tony. If I hadn't centered my search criteria around USB I may have had better luck finding the TA's. My query came after I had added the external USB hard drive, created files systems on it, then later attached an external USB CD/DVD+RW drive to the bus. The CD/DVD got assigned the ID the hard drive had originally so the drive became inaccessable. I decided then to remove the hard drive and reinstall it only to find that I didn't know how to remove the dang thing. It was only later that I found out I could have fixed the situation easily via a tweak to the ID values in mscsi. Live and learn. DDinAZ |
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