USB Device ID

[Federico Voges]

On Friday 03 February 2006 13:19, Ben Duncan wrote:
> When you plug in a USB mass storage device (JumpDrive or USB based
> disk) how does on tell what SCSI device it shows up as ?
>
> Thanks ...

dmesg or syslog.

Additionally, if you're using udev, you can use custom rules to assign a 
specific device name:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-camera
http://webpages.charter.net/decibelshelp/LinuxHelp_UDEVPrimerMisc.html

Cheers,
Fed.
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