Hi.
I have a digital camera and a "pendisk". I've been able to get both of these working (individually), but both got mapped to "/mnt/removable".

This is okay, but I really would prefer if I could get them to mount in different places (say, "/mnt/camera" and "/mnt/pendisk").

Is this possible, or does Mandrake "forget" about a USB device once it's plugged out? Can Mandrake tell different USB mass storage devices apart?

I'm no expert (not by a long shot!) and I have trouble finding existing information on this topic. Help! :-)

No one else has answered, so I will take a shot, even though I am not a Mandrake user.

Usually, the information about mounting your various storage devices will be kept in /etc/fstab. Check this file, for an entry that includes /mnt/removable.

In my experience, USB devices are treated as SCSI devices. The system sees them as /dev/sd#, where # is some number, which depends on the order in which your kernel encounters them (or if they were true SCSI devices, their SCSI ID #s). You are probably out of luck getting them to automount to different locations, although you are free to manually mount them where you choose.

Thanks, idaho -- how nice of you to answer in a 'foreign' forum.

I'm not about to fiddle with manually mounting the devices, so I guess I'll just avoid using several devices (or trying to map them into more natural locations). Thanks though!

By the way, what would happen if I were to plug in a second device? "/mnt/removable2/" ?

Oh, and if there are some "drakes" out there who have specialist knowledge -- please share.

You are welcome KlaymenDK, I was just taking a look through the list of unanswered questions to see if there were any I could pick off.

A second USB device would be handled just like adding a second SCSI device. Instead of /dev/sda you would see /dev/sdb.

Also, I don't know what I was smoking when I said number in my first post, I meant letter. Different partitions would be represented by numbers.