[Wylug-help] usb pendrives

[Anne Wilson]

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On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 10:37, Roger Greenwood wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2005 07:48, mikeb at gbdirect.co.uk wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 07:14:13AM +0000, Roger Greenwood wrote:
> > > Hi Lee,
> > >
> > > I am trying to use the built in systems but am finding myself delving
> > > deeper and deeper. I have already tried changing /etc/fstab but I will
> > > now have another go - many thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > The drive is recognised as a scsi disc at /dev/sda or /sda1 or /sdc1 or
> > > /sdc2 etc depending which way the wind is blowing (I don't yet fully
> > > understand why it differs).
>
> Update - if I don't properly unmount a drive (due to it being "busy") then
> the next time I plug the pendrive in, it gets given the next device
> number. /dev/sda1 is now stuck and I can't unmount it at all. A reboot
> seems very drastic but may be the only way - USB help is very hard to find.
>
That's because so many of us are having problems with removable devices.  I
don't know whether it's a udev issue or a hotplug issue, but it's being
widely reported.  For powered devices I have found that to power them down,
then up again makes them be re-read and assigned the correct device name (it
works for my usb LS120 drive), but I don't see how you could apply that to
non-powered devices.

Anne
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