On Thursday 28 November 2002 04:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 9:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > > On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:02 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Thursday 28 Nov 2002 5:57 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > Out of curiosity I decided to try the card reader again, now 9.0 is > > > > settled in. To my surprise MCC recognises it as follows: > > > > > > I tried a re-boot, and found that my sda was now sdb, and the card was > > > recognised as sda. Then I tried to mount it: > > > --- > > > mount /dev/hda /mnt/cardreader > > > mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only > > > mount: No medium found > > > [root@anne-linux anne]# umount /mnt/cardreader > > > umount: /mnt/cardreader: not mounted > > > ---- > > > > > > I presume that this means that it is finding the CF slot, for which I > > > don't have a card, and not the SM slot, in which I have placed a card. > > > > > > Is that your interpretation? > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne, was that a typo above or did you really mean sda? Again it has to > > have a partition designation. Try mount /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 > > whichever is the smart card device. Just type in that and see what it > > returns. Then if you cd to /mnt /cardreader it should show you data as > > in photos by doing "ls".HTH > > A typo, but not sure whether it was in the email or the command, so I > plugged in again and rebooted. This time I realised that it had added sda, > moved the LS120 to sdb and also added sdc - that is, according to MCC. > However, when I booted I got a message that sda had been added - no mention > of sdc. I should also say that the boot hung for a long time at 'finding > dependencies', re-starting as soon as I disconnected the cardreader, which > I immediately re-plugged. I suspect that it is identifying the CF reader > and loading the appropriate drivers, but can't cope with the SM. > > The root console now gives me: > > [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sdc /mnt/cardreader > mount: special device /dev/sdc does not exist > [root@anne-linux anne]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/cardreader > mount: No medium found > > Konqueror does not show any entries under /mnt/cardreader. > > Anne
Ok, here is evidence that smart cards work, Miark's post may help, this is from the newbie maillist archives: newbie <-- Chronological --> Find <-- Thread --> Re: [newbie] Mounting SmartMedia From: Dennis Myers Subject: Re: [newbie] Mounting SmartMedia Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 16:34:59 -0700 On Thursday 29 August 2002 05:34 pm, Miark wrote: > It would run if it were so smart, eh? > > Anyway, I got my USB reader today, plugged it in, did > a mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sm and blam! I was in > business! One less reason to depend on Winsux-- I love > it. A couple of questions, though: > > * How "hot-swappable" is this beast can I yank it out > anytime it's not writing, or do I have to unmount it > before I pull the card out, or the reader out of the > USB port? > > * Does supermount have anything to do with this? > > * Should I put anything in /etc/fstab? > > Thanks, > Miark HTH -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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