Re: udev problems

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>]

On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 13:15, Michal Èihaø wrote:
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> Hi
> 
> I finally decided to give udev a try, but it was not as good as I hoped. I 
> have Apacer Mega Steno card reader (as well as other usb storage device) and 
> I wanted to have permanent name for it. Okay, lets create some rule in 
> udev.rules and script that will generate it. Sometimes the name was generated 
> correctly and sometimes not. Afer some experiments I got three rules, that 
> seem to work (with line numbers):
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> 21: BUS="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}="Apacer  ", SYSFS{model}="Mega Steno      ", 
> PROGRAM="/etc/udev/apacer.sh %k %b %n", NAME="%c{1}", SYMLINK="%k %c{2} 
> %c{3}"

What is this "apacer.sh" for? What's in there?


> Another topic is that device does not automatically report partitions, so man 
> has to read appropriate device to get partitions.

Most removable media devices are unable to report media changes, you
have to poll the device, but thats not a udev task.
So your choice is to dis-/reconnect for partition update or create all
partitions if the main device is connected with NAME{all_partitions}=.

thanks,
Kay




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