The card is a normal CF card.  It works in my pocket pc and digital camera.  
The adapter works in windows.
When I booted into failsafe, I could mount the card.  How do I get it to work 
with my regular boot?  Do I have to change something in the kernel?

On Friday 25 October 2002 11:31, J. Grant wrote:
> on the boot menu select failsafe I presume. Unless you have modified it.
>
> Or rebuild your own kernel etc.
>
> Is it a standard CF card? or an IBM microdrive?
>
> does the CF work normally? perhaps its broken
>
> Regards
>
> JG
>
> ajax wrote:
> > Thank you for your response.  How would I go about doing this?
> >
> > On Friday 25 October 2002 09:57, J. Grant wrote:
> >>Try without devfs, and manually create the node in /dev (if it does not
> >>create it on boot) see if you can acess it. I have CF adapter working
> >>great on my mdk8.1 laptop
> >>
> >>JG
> >>
> >>ajax wrote:
> >>>I've just bought a pcmcia compactflash adapter and I can't get it to
> >>> work on my thinkpad with Mandrake 9.  If I put the card in before
> >>> turning the computer on it freezes after saying:
> >>>
> >>>Starting PCMCIA: cardmgr [1031]: socket 1: ata/ide fixed disk  OK
> >>>Starting Portmapper OK
> >>>Starting System Logger: cardmgr [1021] executing : :/ide start hde'
> >>>Failed Starting kernel logger OK
> >>>Starting partmon
> >>>
> >>>If I put the card in after booting I get:
> >>>
> >>>Oct 23 21:54:37 ******* kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device
> >>> 21:00 Oct 23 21:54:37 ******* kernel: 
> >>> /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Oct 23 21:54:37 ******* kernel:
> >>> devfs_do_symlink(disc0): could not append to parent, err: -17
> >>>in /var/log/syslog where ***** is the computer name
> >>>
> >>>If I try and run hardrake or mount hbe it freezes
> >>>
> >>>Any ideas
> >
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