> Try
> # rmformat
> It may be able to find the removable device. Then you
> can mount it.
> Maybe this laptop-discuss group isn't big enough.
> There should be some
> people who are familiar with this.
>
> Vincent.
Vincent,
When a Plextor DVD drive or a Lacie 60 GB Hard disk
is connected via the Cardbus Firewire card, rmformat doesn't
find any devices:
[t43p:/export/home/t43p/admin/SanDisk_CF/SanDisk_PC_Card]# rmformat
Looking for devices...
No removables found.
Same thing happens when a CF card is plugged into a
SanDisk PC Card adapter and that is plugged into the
Cardbus slot.
However, I know the CF card works and if formatted
correctly as if I plug the CF card into a Hagiware
ExpressCard CF adapter and plug that into the
T43p Express Card slot, the CF card shows up:
[t43p:/export/home/t43p/admin/SanDisk_CF]# rmformat
Looking for devices...
1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/rmdisk0
Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c6t0d0p0
Physical Node: /pci at 0,0/pci1014,566 at 1d,7/storage at 7/disk at 0,0
Connected Device: HAGIWARA CF Card Adapter 1.00
Device Type: Removable
Bus: USB
Size: 488.7 MB
Label: <None>
Access permissions: Medium is not write protected.
[t43p:/export/home/t43p/admin/SanDisk_CF/Hagiwara]#
Volumn manager also opens a file manager window
showing the directories and files on the 512 MB CF card.
Also, the Lacie 60 GB Hard disk has both Firewire and
USB/2 interfaces. If I plug the disk into a USB/2 slot,
rmformat finds the drive and volume management
mounts the drive and opens a file manager. Same
for a CD in the Plextor drive when connected by the
USB/2 interface
So, at least on my notebook, volume manager and
rmformat do not find devices connected via Cardbus.
The same devices connected via USB/2 work correctly.
That said, the Firewire/Cardbus connected Plextor DVD-R/RW
drive can read CDs and burn them using readcd and cdrecord
from the Blastwave.org cdrtools package.
Also, a Cardbus (atheros chipset) IBM 802.11abg wifi card
works with the ath and cardbus drivers. So it appears that
some devices work with the cardbus driver (wifi) but others
work partially but not correctly (firewire and CF card in
PC Card adapter) and others cause a system crash (TDK
modem).
Stuart
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