[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, > Since I moved to kernel 2.4 I am very happy with the hanling of the > usbkey...That is I was till I tried to mount, one after another two such > devices, apparently not of the same type: One was a Nikon coolpix > digital camera and the other my disk-on-key stick. The system refused > stubbornly the second device and nothing helped ( I tried first to > rmmode the modules and to modprobe them again and then init 1) .In the > end I rebooted the computer like in some other operating system... > Anyone knows where is stored the information about the type of the > device attached and how to refresh it ?
I'm willing to bet that when you attached the second device it simply showed up as /dev/sdb? as opposed to /dev/sda?
Since USB storage device look like SCSI and the kernel already allocated the sda slot to the first device, the second one was simply sdb.
Cheers, Gilad
-- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Codefidence. A name you can trust(TM) http://www.codefidence.com
"The people I've met who do great work... generally feel that they're stupid and lazy, that their brain only works properly one day out of ten, and that it's only a matter of time until they're found out."
-- Paul Graham, "Great Hackers".
================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
