moving drives

[Gregory Nowak]

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Do you have usb-storage in the kernel, or as a module? If as a module,
try to unload the module, and reload it before plugging in the drives,
or better yet, setup kmod, so you don't have to worry about all of
that. On all my systems, the first drive that is plugged in shows up
as /dev/sda, second as /dev/sdb, and so on, and I can unplug and plug
back in the drives as many times as I want with the system still
running, and those letters always start at a, and go up from there.

On another note, speaking of flash drives, I got a secure pen drive as
a gift yesterday. It works with gnu/linux just fine, but I am
wondering if I can write-protect the drive, and set a password on it
from gnu/linux,  or is this yet another thing that I need that other
OS for.

Greg


On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 02:54:44AM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a little situation. When ever I plug in my flash drive, it is 
> assigned a device like /dev/sde /dev/sdf or what ever. The same 
> happens for my external USB hard drive.Now for the 
> problem. Is there some way I can pin this down? I want to add this 
> to /etc/fstab so that I can mount it without needing root, but I can't 
> do that if the device name is different between sessions. Any thoughts?
> 
> Equal causes can produce very unequal effects.
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
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