Re: smart media card reader problem

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Tuesday 13 January 2004 19:19, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Richard Lyons wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote:
> > > >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:
> > >
> > >   Worse.. don't know. What happens is that when you unplug a usb
> > >   storage device and plug in a different one, it gets assigned a
> > >   different drive letter. What used to be /dev/sda is now
> > >   /dev/sdb. The reboot resets the counter.
>
> Try using eject /dev/sda to reset the counter. No need to reboot.
>
> Andy Perrin

Thanks Andy.  Far and away the simplest method anyone has suggested.

(Churlish of me to complain after such a useful tip, but when replying 
to list it's better to 'reply to list' not to 'reply to all'.  I get 
two copies the way you do it.)

-- 
richard