On Saturday 28 December 2002 05:46 am, you wrote: > I have but you have gotten farther than me even. I have an external USB > flash card reader that Mandrake doesn't even notice I have plugged in > despite it supposedly being supported on 2.4+ kernels. Some users on > list expert have helped with my fstab entries and now I can see the > device in Kwikdisk (and usbview) but when I try and mount it I get the > same error as you except mine says /dev/sda1 does not exist.
Every one of my flashcard readers (I have 3), and I have mounted them on quite a few different machines, are /dev/sdb1. That, in spite of the fact I have no /dev/sda1 at all, on any of my machines. In fact, the only /dev/sdaX I have on any machine is /dev/sda4, on those with zip drives. Trying to mount as /dev/sda1 has always failed me. Entries are either: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/cardreader vfat auto,user,fat=12 0 0 (that's my line for 8.0 installations) or: /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 (that line was created automatically by the 8.2 installer--however, the dev= was /dev/sdb, and I have to change that to /dev/sdb1 several installs did this to me) or: /mnt/cardreader /mnt/cardreader supermount dev=/dev/sdb1,fs=vfat,exec,--,user,umask=0,fat=12,sync,dev,suid 0 0 (this line is created manually by me when no cardreader is present during the installation--note that scsi emulation in the kernel is mandatory). The cardreaders are definitely hot-pluggable, although occasionally supermount has a problem that is fixed by re-booting, ala-Windows. I usually make a cardreader group and add my users to it (I don't think this was necessary with 8.0, but I had problems unless I created cardreader with 8.2). I don't use 9.0--sorry. e.
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