On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 16:16, Daryn Hanright wrote: > Now am not sure what steps above where neccessary or not - maybe someone far > more intelligent than me can explain...but anyway it seems to work! Bit more > pissing about than in the old days thats for sure!
For now, there will be a bit of pissing about, unfortunately. Linux is in the middle of switching over from the old, standard, tried and true, and well known system (/dev/sda1, /dev/hda4, /dev/ttys0) to a new system that is none of those things, but does handle removable devices properly. The pissing about is caused by some systems still using the old naming scheme, and some using the new one. Until everything uses udev there will be issues. Under udev (User-space Dev File System) you will only see devices that are attached to your system under "/dev". So no "sdgq12" if you do not have one. (What the hell is a sdgq? Scsi diskâ) You saw udev in action when you plugged in your Palm and the device-nodes appeared and disappeared. You will also notice new names (sane ones). While I have not installed FC3 yet, under my old Debian unstable box I found that keeping an eye on the system log files while I added devices was very useful for figuring out what was happening. -- Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/
