updfstab.conf and Sandisk Cruzer Mini USB flash RAM

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Apr 13 14:52:20 UTC 2004


Mikko Huhtala (mhuhtala at abo.fi) said: 
> Yes indeed. The SCSI entry is 
> 
> -
> class: HD
> bus: SCSI
> detached: 0
> device: sda
> driver: ignore
> desc: "Generic STORAGE DEVICE"
> host: 9
> id: 0
> channel: 0
> lun: 0
> generic: sg1
> -
> 
> 
> and adding 'match hd "Generic STORAGE DEVICE"' in the flash entry in
> /etc/updfstab.conf.default works. Thanks a lot. Is there some logic to
> why the USB product description works for some flash drives and not
> for others?

Basically, it's just a matter of what shows up as the SCSI description.
Digging in the usb-storage driver code would show where the
translation is done.

Bill





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