Re: Hal and device identification

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:21:23PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
 > I've got a usb disk, hal finds it and identifies it as a JUMPDRIVE 
 > ELITE.  This value is not in /usr/share/hwdata/usb.ids.  My question is 
 > where did hal get this info, and how can I retrieve it given only the 
 > vendor id and device id (5dc:a400)

It's the 'label' of the disk.  man mlabel for more info.

	Dave

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