Short of rebuilding the kernel without the usb-storage support... Isn't there a script that runs vmware? Can't you just put the rmmod command in there? Or just write a new script that runs during rc1 or rc0 to run rmmod? -J On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:23:44 -0500, Andrew Robert <arobert@townisp.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
I have a 160G NTFS partitioned USB external disk drive that I would like to use in my VMware instance.
I tried to get VMware to recognize the drive but it failed to do so because the Linux USB driver had it locked.
Removing and re-attaching the drive did not release the driver lock.
What resolved the problem was to unload the usb-storage kernel module using the command:
/sbin/rmmod usb-storage
This works great but the module reappears the next time I boot the beast.
Does anyone know of a way to make this permanently go away?
Any help you can provide on this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you, Andy _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug