Re: [edlug] travel drive

[H C Pumphrey <hcp@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Mark Dickie wrote:

> 
> I have a usb floppy drive which uses the usb-storage module, it appears as 
> /dev/sda so I guess thats the first one that gets assigned to usb devices.  
> Give that a try and see what happens.

That's what happens with my USB floppy drive too. My Sony digital camera
uses the same driver, appearing as /dev/sda1. I plugged in one of those
keyring dongle things and it worked exactly like the floppy drive.

To topic drift a bit, what is the correct way to deal with having two USB
storage devices? The first one you plug in becomes /dev/sda (or sda1) and
the second one becomes /dev/sdb (or sdb1). This means that having lines
like 

/dev/sda1       /camera vfat    defaults,user,noauto
/dev/sdb        /floppy vfat   defaults,user,noauto 

in your /etc/fstab means you have to plug the devices in in the correct
order. Now, the USB driver knows what the devices are. Is there a smart
way to have it mount the camera on /camera and the floppy on /floppy,
irrespective of which order you plug the things in?

All the best

Hugh

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