I have two flash drives: a 128MB MicroAdvantage and a 256 SanDisk secure 
digital card (relic of a camera that died) that is plugged into a 
SanDisk SD card reader. They get plugged into a USB cable which snakes 
around from a port on a USB 2 card on the back of my box to a convenient 
spot near my keyboard. Whichever  one is seen first reads OK. It doesn't 
matter whether it is plugged in before or after boot.

The problem: if I umount the device, unplug it, then plug the other one 
in & attempt to mount it, I get a "not a valid block device" error. 
FWIW, XP has no trouble with this. XP can even tell the devices 
apart--mounts one as drive J:, the other as drive K:.

What can I do to make Linux recognize the second device to be plugged in?

The applicable entry in /etc/fstab is:

/dev/sdb1	/mnt/usbhd	auto	noauto,rw,umask=0,users	0 0

The device is "sdb1" because I have a small SCSI disk which is "sda1".

Although not a major problem, this IS a considerable annoyance. Any help 
will be much appreciated.

-mj-




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