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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 18 May 2004 Lamotkin AT softhome.net wrote:

> 
> SUCCESS !!! 
> 
> MO drive works with Linux! (my appreciations
> to James Miller who led me to
> marvellous linux.com HOWTOs). 
> 
> The solution was quite simple:
> 1) insmod ide-scsi   # the module's from SW 7.1
> Now /dev/sda 'virtual' SCSI device appeared.
> 2) mount /dev/sda /MO
> Note it's been done with 'BzImage' kernel. 

Which bzImage kernel?  I think Slackware calls them all by the same name 
but puts them in different directories on the CD or at the website.  I 
have used a /net.i/bzimage, for instance, as well as the /bare.i/bzImage.

> 
> Well, the original problem remains:
> how to make such mounts permanent?
> Edit fstab or mtab? (For instance, '/DOS'
> mount found in the mtab only).
> But both of them seem to be readonly ... 

Can you add the above lines (insmod and mount) to rc.d?

Sindi