Aparently I was anticipating a problem that I won't run into. I'm still
interested in an answer if there is one, just so I can put my mind at
ease when I eventually *do* run into it.
- Theo
Chris Spackman wrote:
>Theo Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>I've got a new digital camera which shows up as a standard USB Storage
>>Device, and works wonderfully, showing up on /dev/sda1. However, I've
>>been thinking of picking up a USB Zip drive, and I've realized
>>something. I think both of these devices are standard USB Storage
>>Devices.
>>
>>How can I be sure that they always get mapped to the same SCSI device?
>>Basically, I always want the digital camera to show up as /dev/sda1,
>>and the Zip drive to show up as some other device, but always the same
>>one? I don't want to have to worry about making sure both are
>>connected when I boot up to be sure that they don't swap positions or
>>some such.
>>
>
>I have the same situation. I don't know if you need to or not, but I
>turned off supermount (hate it, never use it), and my camera is sda1
>and the zip is sda4. automagically, no problems at all. (Well, one
>small thing: i have to turn the camera on and then plug it in to the
>computer, or sda1 `is not a valid block device'. This is a new thing
>in 8.2.)
>
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