Used to be, I'd stick the my camera's SD card into the all-in-one card reader, and it would show up as /dev/sdb (my SATA hd shows up as /dev/sda). Now it doesn't show up automatically. "fdisk -l" doesn't show it. But "fdisk /dev/sdb", followed by simply quitting fdisk wakes it up. /dev/sdb shows up, and I can do the usual mounting. I have fs type auto for /mnt/extdrive, because I may be hooking up an external USB hd (ReiserFS), a USB key (FAT32 for compatability with work), or SD card
It was probably an "upgrade" somewhere over the past few weeks that did it. Is this a known problem? Even better is there a known problem. My Google-searching ability failed me with this one. My queries ran into a whole bunch of people trying to set up udev rules to recognize which device was mounted. That's not my problem. I simply need to have the system automatically recognize that *SOMETHING* exists on /dev/sdb. I can type "mount /mnt/extdrive". -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- [email protected] mailing list
