On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Temlakos wrote: > Everyone: > > Several weeks ago I posted the problem I had with my Lexar Media CF card > reader trying to connect to a 2.4.2129 kernel and causing a panic. > > Earlier this week I finally got the parts I needed to build another > system, and on this system I installed Fedora Core 2 and the 2.6.8 > kernel. Result: no more panic. > > Well, fine--when I connect the card reader, the kernel detects it and > doesn't blink an eye. That's good. Now--how do I mount it, and at what > point, and can anyone show me how to get it to mount automatically upon > connection? I don't remember if this question has been asked before, but is this reader a multi-card/slot reader? If so, make sure you add this to your modprobe.conf file: options scsi_mod max_luns=255 If the reader is a single slot, CF only reader, and you have no other SCSI devices, then you should be able to mount /dev/sda1 when you have a card in it. Where you mount it is your choice...I tend to use something like: /mnt/cfcard You can then add something like this to your /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/cfcard auto user,noauto,rw 0 0 Which will allow any user on the system to issue: "mount /mnt/cfcard" to mount it or "umount /mnt/cfcard" to unmount. The easiest way to look in your /var/log/messages file for something like this: Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Vendor: Model: USB Card Reader Rev: 1.01 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Vendor: Model: USB Card Reader Rev: 1.01 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Vendor: Model: USB Card Reader Rev: 1.01 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 15 01:09:00 winblows kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 This will tell you what "drive" devices have been added for this reader. In my case, because I have a multi-card reader, and have that option line in my modprobe.conf file, I get 3 devices added. Without that line, it would only see one slot. Also, because I have a SCSI hard drive (which is /dev/sda), my reader's devices started at /dev/sdb. If you have a multi-card reader, your best bet might just be to insert the card, and try to mount each "drive" device...but remember to add "1" after each drive device (ie, drive /dev/sda, use partition /dev/sda1), as most (if not all) of these devices treat the cards like partitioned and formatttted hard disks. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
