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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

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-03 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-03 11:28 udev removable media Roeland Moors
2004-09-03 11:41 ` Greg KH [this message]

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