Re: USB MagicOk

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

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?

Hal

On Thursday 26 December 2002 11:40 am, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> 1 computer with USB Hub
>
> 2 USB 32Meg key fobs
> 1 USB MP3 player with 10Gig drive
>
>
> All 3 devices link in as /dev/sd?
>
> Is there a good way to assign ID's to these devices?  As it stands right
> now whatever device I plug in first is /dev/sda, second is b, etc.  Is
> there a way to make it so the MP3 player is always sda, one fob is
> always sdb and one is always c?  It would make managing multiple devices
> at once alot easier, especially when sync'ing the fobs.
>
> :wq!
>
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