usb flash disk?

[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:

> Tom Diehl wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Does anyone know the magic incantation that I need to put into
> > /etc/modules.conf to get the usb-storage to load automagically
> > when I plug it in? If I do modprobe usb-storage it gets detected
> > as sda. I just cannot seem to get it to load automatically.
> 
> hotplug should automatically probe the USB devices.  Look at 
> /var/log/messages and see if hotplug doesn't recognize the drive.  If 
> not, you may need to add it to /etc/hotplug/usb.distmap.

Hummmm, interestingly enough I did not have that file. A simple
"yum install hotplug" seems to have fixed it though. 

Thanks for the hint,

...........Tom