[Novalug] usb device assignments

Bob Copeland me@bobcopeland.com
Thu Jul 24 15:16:02 EDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
>
> I'm having problems booting linux after a motherboard
> "upgrade".  One part of the messages before it fails
> deals with my case's built-in photocard readers.  They
> are usb devices and seem, from the messages, to be
> getting assigned scsi disk device names 'sda' to 'sdd'

In addition to the other good advice, it's useful to note that there
is a fixed naming for devices if you are using udev -- check out
/dev/disk/by-id/.  The other thing that can help is mounting disks by
label instead of by device name.

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