Off-topic - Mounting multiple USB sticks on Win XP
Lloyd Kvam
lkvam at venix.com
Tue Apr 8 17:08:43 EDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 16:18 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Lloyd Kvam <python at venix.com> wrote:
> > Control Panel/Admin Tools/Manage Computer/Storage/Drives
>
> BTW, invoking "DISKMGMT.MSC" from "Run" or the command prompt also works.
That's much better.
>
> > It also appears to mark the drive letter on the device rather than configuring
> > the system to start lettering from U.
>
> Windows stores drive letter assignments in the registry. It has
> some method of getting a unique signature for each volume. For NTFS,
> it just uses the GUID from the filesystem superblock (or whatever it's
> called in NTFS). Not sure about FAT. Volume serial number, maybe.
I bet his are FAT partitions straight from the manufacturer, so no GUID.
>
> > Is this normal Windows behavior?
>
> Define "normal". It's pretty normal in the sense that Windows
> normally drives one batty with crap like this. :)
>
> FWIW, I was NOT able to reproduce the behavior you describe on my
> Win XP Pro SP2 box here at work. I manually adjusted the mappings for
> two USB sticks. They retain their custom mappings, even if I
> re-insert them out-of-order, or at roughly the same time.
>
> How is the user mapping the other "drives"? SUBST?
I think so.
> (snipped)
> -- Ben
Thanks very much for actually running the experiment. I use file system
labels on my USB sticks to keep them straight. This works quite nicely
with Linux. I did not try to label Steve's drives. That might be
enough to keep them organized.
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into helping.
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