On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:59 pm, you wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:30:09 -0500 > > Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen > > where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried > > mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 > > /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or > > how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out > > what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. > > Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for > > any help. > > -- > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > Did you actually make a directory under /mnt called compactflash? If so, > your mount command should work (assuming you don't have other SCSI devices, > in which case, your reader might not be sda1). Assuming your reader > actually is sda1 and you have created the directory compactflash under > /mnt, you can add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 > /mnt/compactflash vfat noauto,user > > Then you can just say mount /mnt/compactflash and it should work. BTW, the > noauto tells linux not to automatically mount it at startup, since it will > generate an error unless the flash card is actually in it. The user allows > a regular user to mount/unmount it. > > Joe All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can tell. Hope Mandrakesoft is working on getting better usb support for 9.0. Any help is always appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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