Do you have devfs or something like that turned on? Those files are generally there by default.
On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Marcel Reifenberger wrote: > Hi there, > > I've searched through this mailing list's archive & various other Google > links to no use, so I'm asking here: > > I use a (Gentoo patched) kernel 2.4.22 + a USB flash card reader with a > CompactFlash and an SD card slot. Once usb-storage detects the reader, /dev/sda > and /dev/sdb are created. To access a flash card (which usually has 1 > partition), I need /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 respectively. These devs only appear after > I've triggered the kernel to read the partition table, e.g. with a "mount -t > vfat /dev/sda /mnt/cf", which, of course, fails with an error message (bad > superblock, etc.). > > Is there a way to automagically create these devices when I insert a card > into the reader? Thanks for your help. > > Bye, Marcel. > > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
