Well, neither /dev/hdc1 nor /dev/sda1 works on my machine. Furthermore, the fact is that it's a separate flash memory adapter, not another PCI controller, that shows up in lspci:
00:0d.0 FLASH memory: Sony Corporation Memory Stick Controller (rev 01) Subsystem: Sony Corporation: Unknown device 8085 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9 Region 0: Memory at fecfe800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=1K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Below are some relevant parts from dmesg. I'm particularly intrigued by this line: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcb8-0xfcbf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio but there's no sign of ide1 existing after boot: simmel:/proc/ide# ls -l total 1 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 16 13:27 drivers lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 16 13:27 hda -> ide0/hda dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 16 13:27 ide0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 16 13:27 piix Any advice remains welcome. Here are some relevant parts from dmesg: ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 On node 0 totalpages: 32752 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 28656 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Sony Vaio laptop detected. ACPI: RSDP (v000 SONY ) @ 0x000f6c50 ACPI: RSDT (v001 SONY Z1 0x20000128 PTL 0x00000000) @ 0x07ffcbac ACPI: FADT (v001 SONY Z1 0x20000128 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x07fff765 ACPI: BOOT (v001 SONY Z1 0x20000128 PTL 0x00000001) @ 0x07fff7d9 ACPI: DSDT (v001 SONY Z1 0x20000128 MSFT 0x01000007) @ 0x00000000 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux-ACPI ro root=304 acpi=force ... ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030813 PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd99e, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4bios S4 S5) ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT] ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *9) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 9, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 9, disabled) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 9, disabled) PCI: Probing PCI hardware ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 9 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9 PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off' ... Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1 PIIX4: chipset revision 1 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfcb0-0xfcb7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfcb8-0xfcbf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: TOSHIBA MK1214GAP, ATA DISK drive blk: queue c0321f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 23579136 sectors (12073 MB), CHS=1467/255/63, UDMA(33) Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:03:11PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > > Andrew Perrin wrote: > > > > > Has anyone got one of these to work? Note that this is *not* a USB reader, > > > but the built-in one in a Vaio PCG-Z505HS notebook computer. Output from > > > lspci -vv is below, but note that there's no indication that the reader > > > shows up as a USB, IDE, or SCSI device. > > > > On my system, Vaio PCG-GRX770, it shows up as /dev/sda1 (or /dev/scsi/host0 > > bus0/target0/lun0/part1). Also, I had to have acpi to get it to work > > properly, I think. > > > > i've got a pcg-z505d, where it shows up as /dev/hdc. it's ide. lspci > will only list the ide controller, in any case. what's in dmesg, > relative to disk drives? > > ben > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]