Re: [gentoo-user] help with UDEV and USB flash drive

[Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>]

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Am Freitag, 9. Juni 2006 10:12 schrieb ext Daevid Vincent:

> Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>
> locutus mnt # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules
> # This is for my Intelligent Stick USB Memory flash drive
> BUS=="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="20031112223132-01", NAME="istick",
> MODE="0666"

BUS=="scsi" and I would also use SYMLINK="istick%n" instead of NAME. I'd 
also guess that the SYSFS{serial} is not the one of the stick, but four 
your USB hub.

> locutus linux # cat /etc/fstab
> # Intelligent Stick flash drive (UDEV)
> /dev/istick  /mnt/istick  vfat defaults,noauto,user,umask=000  0 0
>
> locutus linux # ll /dev/istick
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 21, 1 Jun  9 00:32 /dev/istick

This is a character device.

> So, why doesn't my /dev/istick work?
> I assume it has to do with that 'b' on /dev/sda1 and the 'c' on
> /dev/istick

Yes.

You should also read http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html.

HTH...

	Dirk
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