Using consistent mount points for USB & Firewire ieee1394 drives

From: hish (hish_at_myself.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: 28 Aug 2004 08:31:55 -0700

I have had 1394 and USB drives working very well for a while now under
Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.7. My only gripe is with the changing
mount points or rather device nodes assigned to these devices. For
example, if I boot my machine with the firewire disk plugged in, it is
assigned /dev/sdb but if I unplug it and plug it in again it then
becomes /dev/sdc or some other thing. This is a pain because now the
entry in my fstab won't load the drive.

Is there any way that I can get the system to set this device up under
the same device node each time so that it is always /dev/sdb no matter
how many times I plug and unplug it?
Thanks,
Hish