Re: Hotplug with Kernel 2.6

[Daniel Drake]

Hi,

Christoph Pleger wrote:
> When I hotplug (or unplug) a USB mass storage device, I want to find out
> which SCSI device (for example, /dev/sda or /dev/sdb) is (was) assigned
> to that USB Device. Is it possible to do that with the help of the
> variables which are passed to the hotplug scripts by the kernel?

Not a direct answer to your question, but you might want to try udev. You can 
set up rules so that your USB storage device always becomes /dev/usb_hard_disk 
or another name of your choosing (as well as the automatic /dev/sdX).

Daniel
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