[lug] Finding devices in /dev, gphoto2 permissions

[Ken Weinert]

What I found is that if I didn't *unmount* then the next time I hooked
up the camera it went to /dev/sdb - if I remembered to unmount the
camera before unplugging it then the next time up the camera would be
/dev/sda again.


On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:33:27 -0600, Hugh Brown <hugh at math.byu.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:40 -0700, Scott Herod wrote:
> > Be aware that the index after the /dev/sda is based on the partition on
> > the USB device.  Also, if you keep plugging USB devices in, I am pretty
> > sure that they will march down the list of scsi devices, sda, sdb, sdc,
> > and so on.  To reset that, "rmmod usb-storage" after umounting the device.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> 
> They do march down the list and then some.  We had one situation where
> we had to copy some files to about 40 usb thumb drives and it just kept
> right on going (at least my memory says it does :).
> 
> One interesting thing I noticed was that when I was booted via knoppix
> and copying the files from a hard drive to the thumb drives, it didn't
> increment the device name.  Of course my memory of it all could just be
> failing. :)
> 
> Hugh
> 
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