Re: What determines which /dev/sd* a USB device becomes?

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Andrew Perrin wrote:

> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
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> > Please don't damn me with dupllicates.
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> Sorry.
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> > And it's a matter about which I remain sceptical. I've not yet seen
> > evidence that the eject command helps, and I don't see why it should.
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> It helps on my home machine, but not on my office machine. Evidence.
>  

Good. Now if you report the bug, then perhaps the developer can work on 
getting it fixed. For sure, if nobody reports the problem it will take a 
long time to get fixed.



> > More, I could contend that if it's needed for some hardware and not
> > other, then there's a bug loitering somewhere because the software layer
> > should provide a consistent user interface.
> >
> > A linux _user_ (as apposed to an _administrator_) shouldn't have to be
> > concerned with whether the CD burner is SCSI or ATA,the CPU is IA32 or
> > Ultrasparc, whether the printer is connected with USB, parallel or
> > bluetooth. Those are administrative (and maybe purchasing) trivia.
> >
> > Knowing to plug USB devices into a USB port, firewire into firewire is
> > enough. Everything else should just happen.
> >
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> True, but irrelevant - the question was how to do it, not how should it
> work.
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and when it's fixed, then it will work the way it should, and people 
like Adam can get on with enjoying the use of  their computers.





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John

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