Re: What determines which /dev/sd* a USB device becomes?
On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
> Please don't damn me with dupllicates.
Sorry.
>
> 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.
It helps on my home machine, but not on my office machine. Evidence.
>
> 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.
>
True, but irrelevant - the question was how to do it, not how should it
work.
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