Hi, I am looking for the answer to a small question that is bugging me. I have searched the recent archives and google without finding the answer.
I currently use three USB mass storage devices (digital camera, diskonkey flash, hipzip MP3 player) and they all work great on my Linux system. I have read the USB docs and a little code so I understand that the system creates SCSI devices for the mass storage type USB devices. The thing I don't get is why some devices appear on partition 1 and others appear on partition 4 of the emulated SCSI device. For example, when I use the devices one at a time, here are the device names that get assigned: Nikon Coolpix 775 camera --> /dev/sda1 DiskOnKey --> /dev/sda4 Hipzip --> /dev/sda4 I can see all the entries created in /proc/scsi/scsi and /proc/bus/usb/devices. The /proc/scsi/scsi entries let me see which SCSI disk to use (sda, sdb, etc.) but I can't tell other than trial and error which partition to use. Does it have something to do with the way the device is formatted? Or the existence or non-existance of a partition table? Of course, every one of my devices is foramtted as vfat to start with. Anyway, sorry about the long rambling. Thanks in advance, Keith -- LPIC-2, MSCE, N+ you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one Got spam? Get SPASTIC http://spastic.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
