RE: Mounting volumes
RE: Mounting volumes
- Subject: RE: Mounting volumes
- From: Andrew Wylie <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:31:23 +1300
on Tue, 13 Mar 2001 20:12:13 Rob Jorgensen wrote:
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On 3/14/01, Andrew Wylie commented:
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> on Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:54:39 Rob Jorgensen wrote:
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>> If I'm not mistaken, you should be able to overcome your problem with
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>> an alias to the drive in question. It's worth a try anywho.
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>> Mount the drive and create an alias to it and then unmount the drive.
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>> Use the alias in whatever fashion you wish (scripted, double-click,
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>> etc.) to bring the drive back online. I haven't done much with this,
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>> but it just worked on a partition. <shrug>
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> Unfortunately that will probably only work until reboot.
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<begin denseness>
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The unmounted drives/local volumes should (re)appear on a reboot
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anyway, assuming that everything is powered up.
and they're configured to do so.
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I thought/assumed that the issue was with mounting a drive after it had been
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unmounted manually. <shrug>
You're probably right
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As long as the drive is powered up, why wouldn't it (the
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script/alias) survive a reboot?
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</end denseness> (hopefully) ;-)
and I assumed the drive was not previously mounted in which case an alias
reference won't work.
___ Andy