Jonathan Davis wrote: > I don't think it usually shows usb devices as sbX. Most of the time it > seems to show them as ide drives. hdX. Have you tried seeing if one is > present? > Really? Every USB drive I have used shows up as a SCSI device. They usually have one partition, and for thumb drives it is normally the first partition that is used. So it would be something like /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1, ect. The drive letter depends on the number of other SCSI drives. If you do a lot if plugging/unplugging of drives is a short period, you may have a gap in the letters. You may have a sdb1 without a sda1, or sda1 and sdc1, without a sdb1. With USB ZIP drives, it is another story - a lot of the ZIP disks are set up to use partition 4, so you end up mounting /dev/sdb4 instead of /dev/sdb1. To make things more interesting, IDE drives in an external USB case will also show up as a SCSI drive. I believe that SCSI emulation is used with all USB and Firewire drives, but I could be wrong... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
