Jared Greenwald wrote:

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 wrote:

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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.

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Good Idea.. I guess I was looking at the problem too closely.

Chuck R. Anderson wrote:

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:23:44AM -0500, Andrew Robert wrote:

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/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?

/etc/modprobe.conf: install usb-storage /bin/true

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Hmm .. I could be wrong on this but wouldn't it be install usb-storage /bin/false Or am I misunderstanding the value of /bin/true?