[TriLUG] Re: USB portable hard drive

[Ryan Leathers]

good tip Lance - thanks

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:45, Lance A. Brown wrote:
> sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
> > 1) Choose a file system for the hard disk which is supported under the
> >  kernel you're running. If it works under Windows, you're probably okay,
> > but I've heard the native file systems under XP can be a problem...
> > 
> > 2) Use the info from /proc/scsi to determine where the device 'landed'
> > when you plugged it in.
> > 
> > Take a look at:
> >    http://www.universalsmartdrive.net/standard/manual.htm#5-3
> 
> And beware if you are using multiple USB "drive" devices.  SCSI id 
> assignment is dependent on plug in order.  So, if you plug in device 1, 
> than device 2, they will get (for example) sda, and sdb.  Remove device 
> 1 and plug it back in, it gets sda again.  Reboot your system, or rmmod 
> the usb-storage module, and plug in device 2 first and *it* will get 
> sda.  This drove me nuts for about an hour until I figured out what was 
> going on.
> 
> --[Lance]
> 
> -- 
>   Carolina Spirit Quest:  http://www.carolinaspiritquest.org/
>   Celebrate The Circle: http://www.angelfire.com/nc/celebratethecircle/
>   My LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/labrown/
-- 
Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
Global Knowledge
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://www.trilug.org/pipermail/trilug/attachments/20040114/2f00e64f/attachment.pgp>