Hi there

Gary G. Hendershot wrote:
> I have a peculiarity on my CentOS machine where it doesn't always
> "autodetect" the CF card when I insert it into the USB reader.  Often I have
> to reboot a couple times, pull the card and re-insert it, run "fdisk -l" a
> couple times and sprinkle holy water on it.  Eventually it seems to find the
> CF card and let me burn the image.  When it doesn't, I move the CF card to
> the slave IDE channel and burn it that way.  This always works but requires
> re-booting at each step of the burn.
> 
> I am sure this is an oddity that is unique to my workstation so I have not
> bothered the list with this one.  But if this is common and someone has an
> "idiot proof" technique for getting the workstation to always see the CF
> card on insertion, I would sure like to hear it.

it is not unique to your workstation. My CentOS 4.3 behaves exactly the 
same, but when it happens I manage to mount manually the CF using

mkdir /media/usbdisk
mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk

and it works. or you could unload the usb modules and modprobe then 
again instead of reboot :-)

Cheers
!3runo
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