Eben King wrote:
> I have a usb drive, and it might appear as hda or hde or hdf,
> depending on whether it was on when the computer was booted, or
> whether I've power-cycled it in that boot. Can an automounter
> recognize the _type_ of drive, independent of its device?
Yes.
You can do all kinds of crazy things with udev (though I personally
disagree with that approach). This means you could have
/dev/devicetype/firstdrive as an actual device filename, for example.
Also, once you have /dev/sda for example, you would need to walk through
/proc (/proc/scsi/scsi and /proc/bus/...) to figure out what controller
is presenting the device (or dmesg/kern.log, etc etc). You can't tell
just by looking at the /dev/sda device filename, as those are assigned
on a first come first served basis.
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> <icblenke@nks.net> http://ian.blenke.com/
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