Hi,

First time posting..

I have an addonics storage device that allows you to hot swap hard drives on the fly
http://www.addonics.com/products/rai...e4rcs35nsa.asp

Anyway...when I power up a drive Suse 10.2 sees the drive:

suse:~ # dmesg | tail
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sdc: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB)
sdc: Write Protect is off
sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back
sdc: sdc1 < sdc5 >
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc
sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

if I add a line like the following to the fstab file
/dev/sdc5 /sys/block/sdc/sdc5 ntfs auto,exec,users,umask=000 0 0

(It is ntfs...I want to convert things to ext3 or reisferfs if I can get this automount thing to work)

then do a mount -a

and then go to /sys/block/sdc/sdc5 I can access the files on this drive

My question is how can I get this drive to respond like my firewire drive...when I plug it in I get a dialog box asking me what I want to do with this device?

I would like to find out how Linux deals with these devices. I've been looking everywhere with not much luck...I tried following the instructions at this web site with no luck
http://freespace.sourceforge.net/gui...to/autofs.html

One last thing...I booted a live Knoppix DVD and it deals with the addonics device exactly like Win XP...which is after a few seconds, of powering on a drive, you get an icon on the desktop that allows you to browse the drive...when you turn off the drive the icon goes away (umount)

Knoppix has some auto configurator that writes to the fstab file on the fly...whatever that piece is, is what Suse seems to be lacking??

Addonics support has been no help...other than saying "it will work" they are useless in this case.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike