[Lilux-help] usb/firewire mounting trouble

[Frédéric Becker]

hi there , 
when mounting an usb device, the device is shown as /dev/sda1 (according to 
cat /proc/partitions). so far so god.
but when unpluggins the device without unmounting it, a problem appears: when 
replugging it, the device turns to be /dev/sdb1, sdc1...an so on.
how can i fix this knowing that most distibutions have this problem. 
i personally use suse 9.1 and disabled the subfs system is the hotplug 
detection, which caused serious performance troubles on my laptop.
what can i do?

thanks 

Frédéric