On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 15:00 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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... > That certainly has been my experience as well, for both usb flash drives and for ide in external usb enclosures. > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! >
