On Mon, 08 Mar 2004 09:33:22 +0000 Adam Cooper <adam.cooper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Funnily enough my MP3 Player/USB Drive has started to do this whereas > it worked before. (Before being, before I installed kernel 2.6 from > Aranjv). > > It's definitely not the device since it plays music fine and mounts on > windows boxes. > > Are there any fixes for this? Are you perhaps using hotplug to load the usb-storage modules? I've found that unless devices are mounted using device labels (as opposed to using the device file in /dev itself), hotplug will not release the device after you umount it, meaning if you mounted the drive using, say, /dev/sdg1, the next time you'd have to use /dev/sdh1, and the time after that /dev/sdi1, and so on. The real why to fix this would be to put a device label on the drive, but I can only find a way to do this with ext2/3 filesystems using e2label or tune2fs. Since all my memory sticks are vfat format for "lowest common denominator" compatibility, this doesn't really help me. My work-around has been to remove hotplug from my system, and use the "usbmgr" tool instead (http://www.dotAster.com/~shuu/linux/usbmgr/) -- -John (JohnThompson@xxxxxxxxxx)
