USB and scsi problem

From: John F (john_at_PleaseSeeSigForAddress.invalid.com)
Date: 04/06/05 

Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 15:24:06 +0000 (UTC)

I'm running Slackware 9.0, and can successfully read files
off a Fuji finepix camera and read/write to a usb external disk.
They each appear as /dev/sda1 (or /dev/sda1...n for the disk)
when plugged in separately (and I haven't yet tried mounting
them simultaneously).
     The problem occurs when I plug in an actual pci scsi card
(with or without an attached disk) and modprobe the driver for it.
Then I'd expect the usb device to appear as /dev/sdb1...n,
but it just doesn't show up at all.
     From the USB-Digital-Camera-HOWTO, I expected it to show
up as /dev/sdb, though the author also says he assumes you
don't have an actual scsi card. Googling linux usb scsi gives
me 800,000 hits, and I'm sure the answer's there somewhere, but
couldn't narrow down the search enough to find it.
     Thanks for any help or pointers, 

-- 
John Forkosh  ( mailto:  j@f.com  where j=john and f=forkosh )

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