I've got an external firewire drive that I want to have automatically mounted on boot. There are 3 partitions on it 2 ntfs & one of them is a FAT32 partition which I want mounted r+w so I can share it with windows.

All this is normally default when I install Mandriva but I've just installed SuSE 10 (which bar this problem is great!) and I just can't mount the thing. Even the KDE GUI tools for mounting won't work. The only way I can mount it is by leaving it unplugged, and then connecting it when the system is fully booted. It recognizes it fine then.

Here's a copy of my fstab. Can anyone make the necessary changes so I can paste it in, also tell me what you've done so I know next time.

Thanks in advance

Steve


/dev/hda6 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /windows/E ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/F ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /windows/G vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sda5 /windows/H ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/sda6 /windows/I vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0