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X11 (PerlTK) Application Mounting SCSI Devices

1. Introduction
2. Download
3. Install
4. Usage
5. Resources

MountIt is a graphical interface for SymMount which allows you to mount SCSI devices independent of their SCSI-ID.

MountIt is a dockable X11-application for AfterStep or alike window-managers to handle on-the-fly mounting of SCSI devices, mainly meant for JAZ and ZIP drives, as dependent if they are connected or not the other SCSI-devices get different SCSI-IDs.

MountIt 2. Download

$MyVersion: 0.005 - Tue Aug 18 03:55:29 EDT 1998 - kiwi$

mountit.tar.gz (perl script + icons)

MountIt 3. Install

% chown root.root mountit

% chmod 4755 mountit

% cp mountit /usr/sbin/

Put follow lines in your .steprc (you run AfterStep WM):

*Wharf mountit nil MaxSwallow "mountit" mountit &

Then you need SymMount and install it and run it, it creates and handles /etc/symmount.conf file which contains the devices and their mounting points (independent of SCSI-ID).

After you installed and run symmount, then you can use mountit (preferable within the window-manager):

You can call mountit -v standalone in verbose mode to see how it does before running it with your window-manager.

MountIt 4. Usage

Click on < or > to scroll all mounts, click on the icon to view mounting-point, vendor.model + partition-no, disk-size, used blocks, free blocks, and used in percentage. The green-light indicates the devices is active (mounted). To mount or unmount click on the button "[un]mount".

In order to mount non-SCSI devices, just add in /etc/symmount.conf:

floppy.none:     /mnt/floppy    msdos

cdrom.none:      /mnt/cdrom     iso9660

These two non-SCSI devices are supported within mountit (but not by symmount).

Following icons are provided (asigned automatically by mountit):

Harddisk JAZ ZIP FloppyDrive CDROM

MountIt 5. Resources

SymMount Symbolical SCSI mounting (required for MountIt)

SystemViuw Small PerlTK application for AfterStep to display disk volumes

MyDesk Small virtual desktop

                                                                                                                                   

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