[TriLUG] usb floppy drive naming question - Centos

[John Mitchell]

Mike,

   1) I can't give you an exact answer but I think it is a udev rule. Or in
your case
the lack of a udev rule.

   2) Check this URL out, it has a lot of info on how this works (but is for
Debian/Ubuntu).
http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/how-to-write-udev-rules/
(also check link under Resources)

   3) The next problem is how/where does CentOS do udev rules? (that one I
don't know).

john mitchell

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Mike Norwood <norwoodm at embarqmail.com>wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I have a simple (I hope) question about the naming process for usb
> devices.  When I plug a usb floppy drive into a Centos 5 machine, it
> seems to find the floppy on every name from /dev/sdb to /dev/sdi, and I
> can access it correctly at each of these names.
>
> When I use a usb drive on the same machine, it is only recognized as
> /dev/sdb (assuming I have not already plugged in the floppy and grabbed
> multiple device names).  Is there any way to make the usb floppy select
> one device name?  I don't really care which one if I can somehow make it
> pick
> the same one each time.
>
> I also am not trying to automatically mount the floppy drive, as we are as
> likely to use tar with it, as to be using mtools to read a dos floppy.
>
> Thanks in advance,  Mike Norwood
>
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