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Re: Udev, kernel 2.6, SATA, and FlashDisk



On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:14 +0700, MS Linuz wrote:
> Just a little bit of sharing:
[snip]
> AFAIK udev assumes sata drive as scsi drive, and this is not good
> for me. On my '/dev/hda based system' to mount flashdisk I just
> need to type mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /to/some/mount-point.
> Or having it mounted automagically by gnome.
> But since my sda is already used, I need something else around.
> In my sata machine ( AFAIK as I read from /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/
> Flash-Memory-HOWTO ) I need to stick it manually to some mount point
> by searching the vendor name of the flash drive and editing
> my udev.rules and /etc/fstab then reboot which is quite hell for me.

*NO* need to reboot!  The next time you insert a flash drive, the
new rule will be seen.

> Imagin' how many times I should do that while there will be a lot of
> flashdrives belong to my friends will be coming by and stuck at
> these boxes. Those which I believe with various vendor name.
> ( one day after first installation I've done it twice ).
> Keep the good work to all developers anyway, I'll always wait for
> further improvement enthusiastically.

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