mmmm, another CF reader, usb-storage problem!
I must be missing something really simple here.
I've done a fresh install of LM8.1 and I don't even have the /dev/sd* files.
So I don't even know where to start with even mounting my device!
Any help ?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Varney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 05 February 2002 14:35
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader
>
>
> I have a multi-card reader, both Compact Flash and Smart
> Media. Hard
> Drake would "recognize" it as a 1-Gig SCSI drive, but I was
> never able
> to get LM to see any SM card in it. Perhaps it would have
> worked with a
> CF card, but that's sort of moot.
> Anyway, I went out and bought a SanDisk Smart Media-only
> card reader,
> and I'm having even less luck. Hard Drake doesn't see it at
> all, except
> (possibly) for an entry in the "other", unknown devices section.
> Perhaps from previous tries, including the successful ones of just
> attaching my Olympus C-700 directly to the computer, I have entries
> under /dev for SDA, SDB, SDA1 and SDB1. If I do an ls of
> them, they're
> all blinking, because (I'm assuming) they're really links to devices
> that aren't there any more.
> When I try the modprobe as shown below (as root), no errors are
> returned. The mount command, though, gives me this:
>
> mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
>
> I sympathize with everyone who complains about the hurdles we must
> jump just to install some new piece of software under Linux.
> I pick up a
> British magazine, Linux Format, and its DVD is loaded with the latest
> (more or less) stuff. When I tried to install the newer version of
> Mozilla, I was told that there were dependency problems, some
> file that
> I needed. Finding that in an RPM on rpm.net, I started to
> install that,
> only to find that, yes, there were more dependency problems with that
> one, too.
> I like Linux, I think it's a powerful system and fun to
> play around
> with, but I will have to admit that I really like the way
> similar things
> are handled in the Windows world. You buy a product, the CD or other
> installation medium has what's needed - you're (usually) not
> told that
> you have to go find some missing/newer files somewhere else.
> I plug in a
> card reader, and (again, usually) Windows recognizes it, and it works.
> I can live with the fact that the CD-player gives me some message
> about "access permission" errors on /dev/cdrom. This used to
> work in LM
> 8.0, but I'm more interested now in getting the usb card
> reader working.
> But it looks like Linux, or maybe just this distro, is
> similar to other
> systems, where things don't always work, and we just have to wait for
> further releases, this year or next.
>
> Bryan Tyson wrote:
>
> > On Monday 04 February 2002 18:09, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader
> >>Does anyone have one of these working?
> >>
> >
> > modprobe usb-storage
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera (or whatever mount point you want)
> >
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> Larry Varney
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