[Gllug] Firewire or USB

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Thu Apr 6 22:24:24 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 21:20 +0100, Richard Turner wrote:

> Really I'd prefer not to have to keep disconnecting the USB cable when I
> boot - how can I configure udev and/or modprobe or whatever I need to
> use the Firewire interface and also not try to use the USB one in case
> another USB mass-storage device is plugged-in?

Write a custom udev rule that matches the USB interface for the device,
and ignores it. That way, when the kernel sees the Firewire interface it
should do something with it, but with the USB i/f, it'll ignore it.

Mike

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