Re: How do I get /dev/ub

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

William Ballard <nospam_40811@alltel.net> wrote:

|> When I plug in my USB hard drive with Kernel 2.6.9 it is now
|> assigned to /dev/uba instead of /dev/sda.
|>
|> Google says this is because of the new usb module in 2.6.9.
|> But I don't have any /dev/ub?? files on my filesystem and
|> I don't think they are regular files, so I don't know how to
|> create them.

Are you using udev?  I believe that it is the responsibility of udev
to dynamically create the /dev/uba node when the device is inserted,
using the information provided by hotplug,

Jim