On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Rita Gibson wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I am fairly new to this list, just subscribed a few days ago. > > I work at a school and we run k12ltsp. Most of our equipment is old most > don't even have usb ports.. Currently kids carry their work back and > forth via floppy or send it to themselves via email. Floppies are very > unreliable, and sometimes the kids have powerpoint or multimedia > projects that are too big for a floppy. I do have a stand-alone linux > machine with front-access usb ports and we'd like for kids next year to > be able to copy their homework from a usb pen drive to their home > directories by logging into this stand-alone machine, and inserting > their usbstick/usb pen drive and copying their updated work.. The > challenge to this, if I understand this correctly, is that every pen > drive is configured as a different scsi device. The first one is sda, > the next sdb. This is what works so far:
I don't know if it's practical for you to do this, but another approach is to rmmod the appropriate drivers each time a USB pen drive is unplugged. It may be enough to rmmod the usb-storage driver, or you may also have to rmmod the sd-mod and scsi-mod drivers. But when the drivers are automatically reloaded (when the next pen drive is plugged in), the device numbering will start over again from /dev/sda. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
