[TriLUG] usb floppy drive naming question - Centos

[Mike Norwood]

John,

Thanks for the reply.  I will take a look and see if I can work it out.  

Mike

On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, John Mitchell wrote:

> 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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