unique identification of usb drives.

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Oversight Jukebox for Popcorn Hour 1 and 2 series. Original code by Lordy.

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unique identification of usb drives. #284

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

can do a checksum on first '512' bytes of mbr followed by partition-number.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record

Or a checksum on first '512' bytes of a partition. (DOS Boot aka Unix
Superblock)

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/fs/fat/fat-1.html

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lordylo...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2010 at 8:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Then create a symlink DISK_DRIVES/USB_idname to DISK_DRIVES/USB_DRIVE_A
Then when doing a scan the path should begin
usb:idname/path/to/media.avi

Also think about crossview and DAS on a remote machine.

Original comment by lordylo...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2010 at 9:24