[TriLUG] Re: USB portable hard drive

[Lance A. Brown]

sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
> 1) Choose a file system for the hard disk which is supported under the
>  kernel you're running. If it works under Windows, you're probably okay,
> but I've heard the native file systems under XP can be a problem...
> 
> 2) Use the info from /proc/scsi to determine where the device 'landed'
> when you plugged it in.
> 
> Take a look at:
>    http://www.universalsmartdrive.net/standard/manual.htm#5-3

And beware if you are using multiple USB "drive" devices.  SCSI id 
assignment is dependent on plug in order.  So, if you plug in device 1, 
than device 2, they will get (for example) sda, and sdb.  Remove device 
1 and plug it back in, it gets sda again.  Reboot your system, or rmmod 
the usb-storage module, and plug in device 2 first and *it* will get 
sda.  This drove me nuts for about an hour until I figured out what was 
going on.

--[Lance]

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