Dear all, I use a couple of USB card readers to access compact flash cards on my computers. In the past, I have used an external one with my laptop, but I have recently upgraded the desktop and, as part of this, added an internal card reader. This has caused me some irritating problems.
With the old card reader, I could access the compact flash (or any other supported card) by inserting the card AND THEN plugging the reader into the computer. If I plugged the reader in first, it would produce devices sdb, sdc etc, but not the partition nodes sdb1 etc. As long as a card was in the reader when the reader was plugged into the PC (or the PC was switched on), I could remove and reinsert cards at will without any problems. With the internal card reader, however, I (obviously) can't unplug the card reader in order to plug in a card, so this solution is no longer useful. I've tried googling for this, but most things that I've found discuss automounting, which I don't want. I simply want the device to be recognised so that I can mount the cards when I want to. I have managed to get round this problem by running the following commands after inserting the card: rmmod usb-storage modprobe usb-storage # wait for a bit mount /mnt/cf However, this seems like a dreadful solution to the problem and I would be much happier if the card would be recognised when it was plugged in. Can anyone offer any suggestions for a possible solution to the problem? If there are any additional details that are required, please let me know. I'm using kernel 2.6.15 (custom compile) with udev 079-1. Many thanks in advance, Al _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
