On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 09:21, Mike Burger wrote: > 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. Use "fdisk -l /dev/sdX" output to give the device partition actually configured such as: [root@goliath root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 128 MB, 128450560 bytes 8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 980 cylinders Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 980 125391+ 6 FAT16
