how to distinguish multiple umass devices?

[Dr. Gary E. RAFE]

Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru> wrote:
!I have multiple umass devices (flash key, player and photo camera), and
!I want to distinguish their devices in some way.
!
!The best thing would be to have /dev/flash, /dev/camera etc, as in this
!case I'll distinguish thoughput graphs on GKrellM system monitor. But I
!don't think it's possible, so I need a way to at least create
!corresponding symlinks in /dev. As I understand, devd is my savior, but
!there's one problem that bugs me: devd sees umass[012], but it doesn't
!know anything about da[012]. Is there guarantee that umassX matches daX,
!or is it possible to get da* device from devd on umass attach?

HAL appears solve this, but I don't need the overhead of HAL,
so I mediated the attach process with a script that is called
from devd:

	attach 99 {
        	device-name "umass[0-9]+";
        	action "/usr/opt/etc/rmediactl $device-name start";
	};

You are welcome to have a look at this script for some ideas:

	<http://drgerlists.googlepages.com/rmediactl>

Comments from the list are welcome.
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