Devices, in general, refers to hardware attached to your computer that performs various tasks. Endeavour mainly works with devices that use media (ie, disks) that are capable of posessing a filesystem (a method to store and retrieve files). Such devices include hard drives, floppy drives, zip drives, etc.
Endeavour recognizes your system's filesystem configuration file
(typically, it is /etc/fstab
), this is a listing
of all the devices installed and properly configured on your
computer that are capable of posessing a filesystem.
In addition, Endeavour has a device references list stored in the file:
$HOME/.endeavour2/devices.ini
.
Endeavour's device references list contains information about each device in addition to the information found in your system's filesystem configuration file.
Endeavour always obtains information from your system's filesystem configuration file first, then obtains information from its own device references afterwards on top of that. Each device must be specified in both files in order for Endeavour to access them properly.
Before you set up Endeavour's device references, make sure that
the devices are properly configured on your system and that they
are specified in your system's filesystem configuration file
/etc/fstab
.
To set up the device references, go to Device->Devices... You should then see the dialog shown below.
To edit an existing device reference, select the device and then click on Edit... Or you can add a new device reference by selecting a device that you want to insert at and then click on Add...
You should only add a device reference in Endeavour if
circumstances make it not possible to added it to your system's
filesystem configuration file
/etc/fstab
.
You should then see the dialog as shown below:
/etc/fstab
.
Icons for this device can be set by clicking on the
corresponding icon on the right column and then selecting
an .xpm
file. Each icon has a
Standard, Selected, and Unmounted state. In most
cases you only need to set the Standard icon. Endeavour comes
with a set of commonly used icons located in:
/usr/share/endeavour2/icons/
Large icons are typically 48 by 48 pixels, medium icons are typically 32 by 32 pixels, and small icons are typically 20 by 20 pixels.
The specified Mount and Unmount commands will be used to
mount or unmount the device. These commands may
vary depending on the system that you are using. Type
man mount
or man unmount
on a
console to get more information on how to specify the Mount and
Unmount commands.
On Linux systems, to mount or unmount a device when
running Endeavour as a non-root user you need to first
edit /etc/fstab
and specify the
user
argument in the options list. For example, to make the
first floppy drive (/dev/fd0
) mountable by any user,
specify in /etc/fstab
:
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The above line would allow any user to mount or unmount
the device /dev/fd0
onto the directory
/mnt/fd0
.
For any device that you want Endeavour to be able to mount
or unmount you must make sure that it is specified in both the
Endeavour device references and in your system's filesystem
configuration file
/etc/fstab
.
On some systems you may not specify an alias (such as a
symbolic link) to refer to a device node. For example if
/dev/floppy
is a symbolic link that refers to
/dev/fd0
then you must specify /dev/fd0
(not the symbolic link /dev/floppy
). If you
use a symbolic link then Endeavour may not be able to tell if the
device is currently mounted or not mounted.
Some devices may require that a driver or module be loaded before the device is mounted, this can present a problem for non-root users who are not allowed to load or unload drivers or modules. However, you can set things up so that a driver or module will be automatically loaded when a device that needs it is mounted.
On Linux, to automatically load a module when a
device that needs it is mounted, edit
/etc/conf.modules
.
Below is an example that shows a set up for automatic loading and
unloading modules for; an IDE CDROM (that is accessed
using SCSI), an IOMega Zip Drive, and a Printer connected to the same
parallel port cable as the IOMega Zip Drive.
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Once the device has been properly set up (on both the system
/etc/fstab
and the Endeavour device references),
it can be mounted in one of two ways:
To unmount a device, repeat the above step (notice that the Mount button or menu item becomes Unmount when the device is already mounted).
Do not forget to unmount the device before you remove the
media or else the data on the media may become corrupted.
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