> And this is my favorite. Trying to mount a USB key. There is no usb > key device, like there is one for cdrom. It gets mapped to a scsi > device (for some reason), the first one, because I don't actually have > another scsi on my computer. /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda. Terrific. Except > on my new computer at home that does not work because I have scsi hard > drive so USB key gets mapped to /dev/sdb1. Of course. Not /dev/sda2. > And that's in 2.6.8. In 2.6.9 it's something completely different like > /dev/uba, but it doesn't work because 2.6.9 is in Sid so it's still > buggy. Count another hour or two of confused googling to figure all > that out.
scsi devices are named similarly to ide ones. ide: primary master = /dev/hda scsi: 1st scsi drive = /dev/sda ide: primary slave = /dev/hdb scsi: 2nd scsi drive = /dev/sdb ide: secondary master = /dev/hdc scsi: 3rd scsi drive = /dev/sdc ide: secondary slave = /dev/hdd scsi: 4th scsi drive = /dev/sdd etc... the numbers that follow the device is the number of the partition that the filesystem resides on. for example /dev/sda1 means the filesystem is on the first partition on the first scsi drive. to resolve these naming conflicts you of your hotplug devices you could use udev. i have my usb camera always symlinked to /dev/camera whether the real device is /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1. udev takes care of that. then in my /etc/fstab i use /dev/camera as my device. if you want more info about udev (and dont want to google, let me know :). -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
