I have a Toshiba notebook with two external drives - a Firewirre 30GB and a USB 180GB. I use the USB maybe 1/3 of the time - it's a large box and too big to carry around. The Firewire is much smaller and I use it maybe 2/3 of the time. It's ready for the road. When both are connected, at boot time the system sees the USB first and places it at /dev/sda; the firewire then becomes /dev/sdb. But when only one is connected - the Firewire - it is loaded at /dev/sda. The filesystem on the firewire therefore sometimes shows up as /dev/sda5 and other times as /dev/sdb5, and this makes automount of that filesystem difficult. So - is there a way to force the system to always load the Firewire first, before USB, whether or not the USB is connected? Alternately, is there a trick one can use in mount or fstab to load this filesystem at the same place every time? OS is Shrike 2.4.20-18.9 (and -13.9). Rgds, ~>jc ** jeffrey w comer
