Ok, I have an external firewire box where I plan to start off using LVM with 2 250GB drives. I plan on building a larger array later, but for now, I am using a single box to make sure all of my configurations are correct.

I have followed the Knoppmyth LVM Wiki and everything works pretty well except when I reboot. I need the firewire drives to be located on boot and right now I can do that manually with :

root@htpc:~ # modprobe ohci1394

The following script is found at http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/scsidev/

root@htpc:~ # ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh
Host adapter 0 (ide-scsi) found.
Host adapter 1 (sbp2_0) found.
Scanning hosts 0 1 channels 0 for
SCSI target IDs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 , LUNs 0
Scanning for device 0 0 0 0 ...
OLD: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CDRW/DVD SM-332B Rev: T410
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Scanning for device 1 0 0 0 ...
NEW: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: B250R0 Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 06
1 new device(s) found.
0 device(s) removed.


root@htpc:~ # vgscan
vgscan -- reading all physical volumes (this may take a while...)
vgscan -- found inactive volume group "vg"
vgscan -- "/etc/lvmtab" and "/etc/lvmtab.d" successfully created
vgscan -- WARNING: This program does not do a VGDA backup of your volume group

root@htpc:~ # vgchange -a y
vgchange -- volume group "vg" successfully activated

root@htpc:~ # mount /dev/vg/myth /myth


Then all is good. I can see everything on the drive and it works like a champ.

I basically need to scan for the firewire drive when I boot so I don't have to do all of this manually. I am sure the steps are pretty simple to do this, but I want to make sure I do everything correctly since my new box is running perfectly - and this is the perfect time for me to screw everything up.

I assume I need to update /etc/modules, but I thought update-modules would do that for me already after I did the modprobe.

I'm still running through Google, but I would still like to know the best way under KnoppMyth to do this.

Thanks in advance.

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