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Re: Is life with 'udev' good?



On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:29 -0800, Steven Yap wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-19-11 at 15:35 -0500, H. S. wrote:
> > 
> > My experience has been great with udev except in the case of multi-card 
> > reader that I have (not sure how to set that up). 
> 
> Most (if not all) card readers (multi or otherwise) don't provide media
> change information, so there's no way for the kernel to generate a
> hotplug event for udev.
> 
> So, there's a hack - use the all_partitions property for the NAME.
> Here's what I use to get access to my CF slot on my multi-card reader:
> 
> BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Zynet*",SYSFS{model}="USB Storage-CFC*",
> NAME{all_partitions}="compact_flash"

Where does this go? /etc/udev/udev.rules?

> This will create 16 partition device files for the CompactFlash LUN. Do
> the same for the rest of the LUNs on your multi-reader, and you should
> be set. The cards put into the reader would normally be accessible as
> the first partition.
> 
> I then creat /etc/fstab entries for /dev/compact_flash1 etc. and I can
> access them through the "Computer" folder in nautilus. It's not as cool
> as having the card show up on the desktop when I plug it in, but hey, it
> works.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steven Yap <syap@shaw.ca>
> 
> 

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