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From: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>
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Subject: Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?
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> The scripts are a bit primitive and get totally confused if I insert 
>more than one USB storage device at a time so would need some 
>refinement for general use but work OK for me as the only user on this 
>PC. 

Thanks, I'll give this a try and see how it works. We have a very simple requirement as well so something primitive will be enough, as long as it works.