On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 14:19 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, February 04, 2010 8:36 AM -0600 Robert Nichols
> <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Looks like that's about all you can do. USB devices aren't available
> > until hotplug discovers them, and that's proceeding in parallel with the
> > rest of the boot sequence. Be sure to put a timeout in that loop lest it
> > hang forever if that external device is absent.
>
> Even better would be to make the script event-driven and launched by the
> hotplug process. Then there's no busy-wait.
>
> This page has some info:
>
> <http://linux.die.net/man/8/hotplug>
>
> The detail links on this page aren't working for me but look promising:
>
> <http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/>
>
Since the OP is looking to have their USB drive mounted before mythtv's
backend process starts up, I'd recommend disabling the mythbackend
startup script:
chkconfig mythbackend off
Then doing a manual mount in /etc/rc.local, followed by starting
mythbackend.
/sbin/mount /dev/sdb1 /wherever
/sbin/service mythbackend start
Of course, I wouldn't recommend using a USB drive for storing myth
recordings, as it eventually bite you due to USB2's limited bandwidth...
-I (also a mythtv user!)
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