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Re: USB drive as a tape device

From: Stuart Henderson (stuspacehopper.org)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2007 - 03:46:13 CDT


On 2007/08/16 08:53, Edwards, David (JTS) wrote:
>
> Of course, that still leaves me with the other problem. I
> still need to identify a disk which is plugged into a certain
> (physically labelled) cable so I can mount it. Anyone help
> with that one? I'm currently grepping through dmesg output
> at the moment.

hotplugd may be of interest; 'atactl <drive>' will tell you the
drive serial number if you need to identify a particular drive.