> I'm trying to get it so that my laptop detects whether or not my
> external Zip is connected or not at bootup.  Is it the rc.sysinit file
> that I modify?  I'm running SuSe 7.0, I think they link to another file
> though.  modprobe imm is the command I use for detecting the zip after
> bootup.

Depending on distribution, you could put IMM in /etc/modules and if the
drive is there, the module will be installed. If it isn't, the module will
just spit out an error message and your system will continue booting. You
can still attach your zip drive later and modprobe imm to start.

Pretty simple. You can also do crazy stuff like adding and removing SCSI
devices to a running system, but it isn't exactly recommended. (It worked
well enough with my MO drive though.) As this isn't really something you
should do, I'm not going to tell you how. I think it's documented in scsi.c
in the kernel source.


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