> 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. -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: andyzb.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 367 bytes Desc: Card for Andy Zbikowski Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010214/7461a90c/andyzb.vcf