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From: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: UDEV rule problem
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 21:33:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161114213309.0c30a505@jupiter.sol.kaishome.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ii5mCmmrAKRL0oUkMANUA8@/NRgnt3LDEgPbtpgi/qnk

Am Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:31:58 +0100
schrieb Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be>:

> Hi,
> 
> I have two external USB3 hard disk enclosures. They have the same  
> vendor, model and the same serial number (unfortunately).
> Vendor, model and serial occur in the usb-subsystem only.
> 
> Since the hard drives within theses enclosures have different  
> capacities, there is a different ATTR{size} value in the  
> block-subsystem.
> But this doesn't have any vendor info.
> 
> How can I write to different udev rules to distinguish these two  
> external hard disks?

I've seen many drives where really the serial number as reported by
Linux is the model number, and the serial number is somehow invisible...
Not sure if this is a kernel bug or some ATA protocol violation.
Especially USB enclosures are a problem with this...

-- 
Regards,
Kai

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-14 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14 14:31 [gentoo-user] UDEV rule problem Helmut Jarausch
2016-11-14 14:51 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2016-11-14 20:33 ` Kai Krakow [this message]
2016-11-15 10:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth

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