On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 01:07:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 10:52, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I've noticed the same problem on a Mandrake system I have. I had times when I > > had a SanDisk Cruzer (ramdrive) and a USB floppy plugged into the USB ports > > and there was no way (without doing an "ls") to distinguish which was which. > > The first one plugged in was always /dev/sda, the 2nd /dev/sdb. > > > > Isn't there some way to lock a device ID with a particluar device? > > Hi, > > I'm 99 44/100th sure that this is just the nature of the SCSI drivers. > > However... with devfs, you may be able to work around that issue. Of > course, moving to devfs is a *big* change, and worthy of much study, > 1st.
It's not _that_ big. For the most part, all you need to do is install devfsd (which does no harm if the kernel doesn't support devfs), and either compile a new kernel which supports devfs, or enable devfs in your current kernel by adding "devfs=mount" to the boot options. I believe the stock kernels support devfs but do not enable (mount) it by default; however I never use the stock kernels so I'm sure someone will correct me (Hi Herbert :) Best, -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] You can have Peace, or you can have Freedom. Don't ever count on having both at the same time. -- Robert A. Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
