I have an IMAC (I7) that is running CENTOS 5.4 on and need to be able to mount a fireire disk automatically when plugged in.

We can do this manually running:
fdisk -l

then choosing the correct disk and mounting it

mount /dev/scd1 mnt

The problem we have is that this machine needs to go in a client office on the other side of the world and we need it to be idiot proof (not to say our clients are idiots, lol)

I need to be able to autodetect and mount the disk like you would if it was running OSX.

Obviously the hardware works, just the automount or autodetect does not work.

We've already commented out the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire Is there some other setting I need to automount the disk.

Alternatively I'll have to write an application to perform the fdisk and mount as root, which I don't particularly want to do.

Thanks,

Rob

why are you still using 5.4 ?
some of the bugs with auto mount and fuse have been fixed in 5.5