Re: USB Mass Storage Devices

As stated in Release Notes this version only supports coldpluggin (your
USB flash should be plugged at boot time).
Hot plugging will be available in next release.

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 03:52:53PM +0100, Graham.Pugh - SCH520 wrote:
> I notice that the latest version of PXES includes an option for USB Flash
> drives.  What additional configuration is needed to make these work with
> ICA? (if any).  I presume I should map a drive letter to something like
> /mnt/usb?  Will PXES take care of supermounting etc, or is there some kernel
> tweaking necessary?
> 
> I have no experience of using flash drives with Linux, but many of our
> students have expressed a wish to use them - any help appreciated. 
> PXES is getting better and better all the time!
> 
> Graham Pugh PhD
> Web Developer
> Kings of Wessex Community School, Cheddar
> email: gpugh-AT-educ.somerset.gov uk
> web: www.commweb.org
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan-Marc Pilawa [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 25 February 2004 17:41
> To: [email protected]; Graham.Pugh - SCH520
> Cc: '[email protected]'
> Subject: Re: [pxes-devel] USB Mass Storage Devices
> 
> 
> Zitat von "Graham.Pugh - SCH520" <[email protected]>:
> 
> > I don't know what state the drivers are for Linux with regarding to 
> > the "USB Mass Storage" devices.  We have proprietary thin clients here 
> > (Wyse) which
> > can be configured to accept USB floppy drives, smart card readers,
> > memory
> > sticks etc., all of which seem to use the standard USB mass storage
> > driver. 
> > 
> > Is this possible for PXES thin clients?  I guess that depends on USB 
> > drivers being available for Linux.
> > 
> 
> Last State I know is: Compile own Kernel with some more usb-modules
> available. Don't forget supermount.o and it can theoretically work. You
> need some scripts, so that the newly plugged device is supermounted to
> /mnt/usbsomething. (Be aware, that ntfs can't be mounted with supermounts
> "auto"-option for filesystem. this will fail! other Filesystems work
> well. Also nice to know: some of my students have memoryticks which are
> not correctly detected. So, if you try, try with a working one ;-)
> Best Regards
> Jan Pilawa.
> 
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