From: mavram_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il
Date: Mon 30 Aug 2004 - 16:12:57 IDT
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 10:36:46AM +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>
>
> mavram_at_bezeqint.net wrote:
> >Hi,
> >Since I moved to kernel 2.4 I am very happy with the hanling of the
> >usbkey...That is I was till I tried to mount, one after another two such
> >devices, apparently not of the same type: One was a Nikon coolpix
> >digital camera and the other my disk-on-key stick. The system refused
> >stubbornly the second device and nothing helped ( I tried first to
> >rmmode the modules and to modprobe them again and then init 1) .In the
> >end I rebooted the computer like in some other operating system...
> >Anyone knows where is stored the information about the type of the
> >device attached and how to refresh it ?
>
> I'm willing to bet that when you attached the second device it simply
> showed up as /dev/sdb? as opposed to /dev/sda?
>
> Since USB storage device look like SCSI and the kernel already allocated
> the sda slot to the first device, the second one was simply sdb.
>
> Cheers,
> Gilad
>
>
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>
Bingo!... I must say that I did try to mount /dev/sda2 instead of
/dev/sda1, and failed. But this is another partition on the same device,
not another device. I was not aware of the difference... With other
mount commands it does not appear.
Thanks a lot, Avraham
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