On 2/25/12, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Yes I have said what I need. The 'init' script finds drives present at >> bootup. > > Why? What difference does it make whether a drive is present at bootup > or is not connected until later? > >> Any USB drive, usually when Puppy is booting off that drive, >> will be present. > > That's simply not true. A USB drive can be plugged in at any time; it > doesn't have to be present at bootup. > Alan, You are stating the bleeding obvious and totally not getting it. Greg, I did look into watching kernel uevents to find the info I wanted, but that was a long time ago, and an old kernel, so I will look at this again, including devtmpfs. Thanks for the feedback. This thread can rest now. Regards, Barry Kauler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html