OH DEAR

[Maurice Murphy]

Thanks Jean-Franc,ois,

There is one other issue with my removable drive that I probably should 
have mentioned before. That is, if I do a 'sudo mount -a', I receive an 
error message stating the removable drive needs a check and that the 
only way to mount it is to amend fstab with a line to 'force' the mount, 
which is the way I have it running right now with Edgy. I guess I'll try 
two things: re-install Feisty and try making the one of the changes you 
suggest to cure the mount problem.

I will try to install the webcam again once I've got Feisty set up. This 
could take a while with the number of upgrades, etc. and reloading my 
favorite apps. Still tomorrow is Saturday, so lots of time! Thanks 
again, Maurice :-D


Jean-Franc,ois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> Hi Maurice,
>
> On 4/27/07, Maurice Murphy <m1625 at rogers.com> wrote:
>   
>> Well, I gave Feisty a real good try!  Unfortunately, it didn't like my
>> HP removable drive in read/write mode.  Every time I did a reboot, it
>> changed the address of this drive from /dev/sdb5 to /dev/sdc5 and vice
>> versa requiring me to constantly change fstab.  As there seemed to be
>> little other difference for me between Edgy and Feisty, I reinstalled
>> the latter.
>>     
> I can suggest two options for fixing this behavior that I would try in
> order of complexity :
>
>  1 - Write your fstab so that it uses the uuid of the drive instead of
> the device node. They are available here : ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/
>
>  2 - You could write an udev rule that would freeze your device name
> to an arbitrary name of your choosing like "/dev/hpdrive". Here's a
> link for a quick and well written howto by dsd :
> http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
>
> However, I find it odd that hal-dev-manager in gnome (I don't remember
> the exact name of the daemon though) doesn't automatically mount your
> removable drive without hacking your fstab.
>
> Hope this helps
>
>   
>> Everything is working fine again, except I've had no success in
>> installing my Logitech Quickcam Messenger webcam either with Feisty or
>> Edgy.  I've tried about everything I can find, but to no avail.  If
>> anyone has a brilliant idea for success on this front, it would be most
>> appreciated.  Boy that would make me truly happy!  :-)  :-)  :-)
>>     
>
> You will have more success of eventually making your webcam work by
> using feisty than edgy since it has a newer kernel. As far as making
> it work I really don't have any clue for you sorry.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Francois
>
>   

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