I should have included that I am running the stock Mandrake 8.1 except that 
I've added security updates.

Joe

On Friday 11 January 2002 10:21 pm, Joseph Braddock wrote:
> I have a PNY Smart Media reader that I purchased to read the Smart Media
> cards I use with my Olympus D460L digital camera.  Like everyone else on
> the lists, I was unable to get it to work successfully with Linux (worked
> fine under Win98).  But, tonight I got it to work!  All I did was add the
> following line to my fstab:  "/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia msdos user" (without
> the quotes, of course).
>
> The best that I can figure is that the msdos file system type is different
> from the vfat and that is why auto and vfat failed.  I came up with this by
> looking at the properties of the reader under Windows and it showed the
> card was written to with 16bit MS-DOS.  So, I thought I'd try it under
> Windows and it worked!
>
> My reader is listed under disks under Hard Drake as a SCSI on sda and the
> card is correctly identified as 32MB.
>
> I don't know if this will work for anyone else, but I post it hoping it
> will
>
> Joe

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