Re: [Cooker] [OT ?] keeping device names constant for removeable drives
--- Borsenkow Andrej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ÷ ÷ÓË, 17.03.2002, × 00:41, Byron Poland ÎÁÐÉÓÁÌ: [...] I now have 3 external removable storage devices, 1 acomdata 80 gig firewire drive (dev1), 1 firewire enclosure with a 30gig drive in it (dev2), and 1 usb smartmedia card reader (dev3). I have all 3 working fine with the latest cooker + some firewire cvs drivers (so the acomdata drive gets recognized). [...] how do I set up fstab and I guess devfs so that no mater how many devices I have plugged in, and no matter what order they were plugged in, all I have to do is type: You probably can't. It is impossible with USB for sure where there is no fixed ID of devices to my best knowledge. So first device plugged in gets next free number etc. I presume the same is with firewire. There is (for all I can tell) no fixed addresses on the firewire bus like on USB. Is it correct? That is what volume manager is for. Setup LVM, give every device own name (volume) and then it does not under which _physical_ names they are accessed because LVM scans all available devices to find volume names. Of course you need to manually run vgscan after plugging in your device. There is no automatic way to do it currently. Maybe a line in a hotplug agent? = SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. -FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/
[Cooker] [OT ?] keeping device names constant for removeable drives
I'm not sure if this is the best place to post this but, I think it is a usability issue. I now have 3 external removable storage devices, 1 acomdata 80 gig firewire drive (dev1), 1 firewire enclosure with a 30gig drive in it (dev2), and 1 usb smartmedia card reader (dev3). I have all 3 working fine with the latest cooker + some firewire cvs drivers (so the acomdata drive gets recognized). Problem: when ever I plug a device in it become sda, and then add more they becoe sdb,c.. say I have all 3 devices plugged in, then I have sda, sdb, and sdc. problem is dev3 is fat (smartmedia card) dev1 has ext3 and fat32 partitions on it and dev2 has just one ext3 partition on it. how do I set up fstab and I guess devfs so that no mater how many devices I have plugged in, and no matter what order they were plugged in, all I have to do is type: mount /mnt/smartmedia - dev3 mounts mount /mnt/fire1 - dev1 part1 mounts mount /mnt/fire2 - dev1 part2 mounts mount /mnt/fire3 - dev2 part1 mounts
