> What distro are you running and have you done any special
> configurations to it after installing?
I'm running WBEL (WhiteBox Enterprise Linux), a clone of RHEL compiled
from RHEL sources by Beauregard Parish Public Library in Louisiana. No
special configs.
> please describe your flash reader connection(s)
I have a cheap ($8) USB 2 card from Fry's. Although it has four ports,
I only have one spare cable & dislike crawling around under the desk to
connect so I haven't (yet) tried both flash drives plugged in at the
same time. One of these days I'll pick up a cheap USB hub or another
cable & try it.
It's just that I think that Linux should be able to let me umount &
unplug one USB device & plug another in.
-mj-
Alan Dayley wrote:
> Mark Jarvis said:
>
>>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.
>
>
> I am a bit confused at your connection description. "They get plugged
> into a USB cable..." means that two readers get plugged into one cable or
> that two flash cards are plugged into one reader that has one cable to the
> computer? I think I need a consice description of your media modules
> (card? drive?) and how they are connected.
>
>
>>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?
>
>
> I suspect, based on assumptions about your connections, that your Linux
> kernel does not support a multiple LU SCSI device. This is normal since
> most kernel binaries that ship in most (all?) distros do not support
> multiple LU devices.
>
> What distro are you running and have you done any special configurations
> to it after installing?
>
>
>>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".
>
>
> If you do need multiple LU support, you will end up with an sdc1 also.
> But, before we go there, please describe your flash reader connection(s)
> so we can go down the right path.
>
> Alan
>
>
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