On 29/01/10 15:05:14, James Bensley wrote:

Do you mean when "any old drive" is connected or a specific one?

-- Regards, James ;)

Any old drive. I have an IcyBox Dock which takes a sata hard drive in a caddy. I have one drive at present but I intend to get a second, plus another caddy, and I shall use those two alternately as backup drives so when either of the discs are connected I want to run the same command for each.

On 09/02/10 12:51:49, MJ Ray wrote:

Barry Samuels bjsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk

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Can anyone tell me how I can get a command to run whenever a sata hard drive is connected?

Probably udev rules, but I've no experience in writing them for SATA drives. My USB flash rules look like:

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="sd*[0-9]", ENV{ID_SERIAL} =="0930_USB_Flash_Memory_0B70F57172221A70", RUN+="/sbin/mount /Mount/USB-Blue1"

Hope that helps,

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Thanks but I have since discovered the 'halevt' package which does the job.