Re: [newbie] Mounting USB mass storage devices

[Joeb]

RichardA wrote:

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 22:42:56 +0100, Anne Wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 

Try running mounting auto, rather than supermount, and use KwikDisk.
   

Tried with and without supermount. And doesn't KwikDisk just automate
the mount command?
I don't think this is just a case of supermount being broken. The
previous filesystem to be mounted seems to be'remembered' after it has
been unmounted, which stops a second one being mounted.
Richard
 

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You might try creating a second directory under /mnt and add an 
additional line to the /etc/fstab for /dev/sdb1.  IIRC, the first USB is 
being seen as SDA1, then when you plug a different one in, it gets 
assigned SDB1.  I'm  sure there is some setting to keep it from caching 
the device, but I don't know what it is.  I have the same problem with a 
USB key and a card reader.   Whichever is mounted first becomes SDA1 the 
other SDB1.  Maybe, multiple USB keys do the same.

Joeb



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