On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 03:04:26AM +0200, Kostas Anagnostopoulos wrote:
> 
> I have a Disk On Key 128MB on Linux 2.4.18-3, Red Hat 7.3 ,works fine
> when plugged for the first time. After unplugging it and replugging it
> it is impossible to mount it again. The commands mount /dev/sda1
> /mnt/diskonkey or fdisk -l /dev/sda hang and I cannot even reboot (I
> have to switch off the machine)
> 
> Each time it is replugged it is attached to a new device. From
> /var/log/messages: 
> Feb 15 00:49:37 m kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
> Feb 15 01:00:11 m kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device 
>number 3
> [root@m usb]# ls -l /proc/bus/usb/001/
> total 1
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           18 Feb 15 01:01 001
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           18 Feb 15 01:01 003
> 
> why is a new device assigned? Isn;t this strange? How can it be
> avoided and which /dev is the key attached each time?

Device numbers and usbfs entries (like the above ones) have nothing to
do with /dev entries.

thanks,

greg k-h


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