From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roeland Moors <roelandmoors@telenet.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev removable media
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 13:41:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040903114128.GA13192@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040903112833.GA3584@laptop>
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 01:28:33PM +0200, Roeland Moors wrote:
> I have an USB zip drive in combination with udev.
>
> When I connect the drive with a disk inserted, everything works
> fine. Here is the udev rule:
> BUS="usb", SYSFS{product}="USB Zip 750", KERNEL="sd?1",
> NAME="%k", SYMLINK="zip"
>
> When connecting the drive without a disk the symlink is not
> created. This is ok, beceause there is no disk.
>
> But if I now insert a disk, there is still no symlink?
That's because we don't get a "media inserted" event, sorry.
> I've search a bit on google and if I understand correctly the
> main problem is the SCSI protocol.
>
> Is there a solution to this problem?
You can use the "all_partitions" solution in udev to always create the
partition device nodes. See the udev manpage for more information.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2004-09-03 11:28 udev removable media Roeland Moors
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