Re: [SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
quote who=John Clarke I have a new (HP) laptop with Ubuntu 6.06. Most things just work :-) I also have a PCMCIA compact flash adapter which works, except that I have to mount the drive manually after inserting it. I'd like to have it automount but having never played with PCMCIA on Linux I don't know what to do to make it happen. Would someone please point me in the right direction? It totally depends on your PCMCIA adapter. Some do everything fine, even if you're (un)plugging the CF itself. Some are fine if you're just (un)plugging the PCMCIA card. Some are totally h0rked (but a subset of those are probably fixable). I'd recommend filing a bug with as much information you can glean about the PCMCIA/CF adaper as possible. Quick thing you can try - boot with it unplugged, run hal-device-manager, plug it in and see what happens. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Have you ever kissed a girl? - Bryan Cantrill to Dave Miller -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
On 7 Aug 2006, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=John Clarke I have a new (HP) laptop with Ubuntu 6.06. Most things just work :-) I also have a PCMCIA compact flash adapter which works, except that I have to mount the drive manually after inserting it. I'd like to have it automount but having never played with PCMCIA on Linux I don't know what to do to make it happen. Would someone please point me in the right direction? It totally depends on your PCMCIA adapter. Some do everything fine, even if you're (un)plugging the CF itself. Some are fine if you're just (un)plugging the PCMCIA card. Some are totally h0rked (but a subset of those are probably fixable). I'd recommend filing a bug with as much information you can glean about the PCMCIA/CF adaper as possible. What Jeff says is the right thing to do. On the other hand... I had an old PCMCIA reader that was slow and tended to make my machine crash, and on a good day made everything else very slow while it's being accessed. I bought a Belkin USB 2.0 reader for about $30 and it's *much* faster and more reliable, and can be plugged into desktops if need be. Money well spent in my case. Maybe John's is better. -- Martin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:37:50 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: It totally depends on your PCMCIA adapter. Some do everything fine, even if Thanks Jeff. The card is recognised, it's just not mounted automatically: kernel: [17180389.364000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 kernel: [17180389.364000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 kernel: [17180389.404000] Probing IDE interface ide1... kernel: [17180389.692000] hdc: SanDisk SDCFB-16, CFA DISK drive kernel: [17180390.364000] ide1 at 0x2040-0x2047,0x204e on irq 3 kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: max request size: 128KiB kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: 31360 sectors (16 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=490/2/32 kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: cache flushes not supported kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: hdc1 kernel: [17180390.368000] ide-cs: hdc: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0 I'd recommend filing a bug with as much information you can glean about the PCMCIA/CF adaper as possible. I want to be sure it's not something that I'm doing (or not doing) first. Is there a config file somewhere I have to edit to make it automount? Quick thing you can try - boot with it unplugged, run hal-device-manager, plug it in and see what happens. It sees the adapter when it's plugged in. lshw tells me this: *-pcmcia description: CardBus bridge product: Texas Instruments vendor: Texas Instruments physical id: 6 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:06.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus resources: iomemory:d2004000-d2004fff irq:185 *-storage description: SDP vendor: SunDisk physical id: 0 version: 5/3 0.6 slot: Socket 0 resources: irq:3 *-ide description: IDE Channel 0 physical id: 1 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logical name: ide1 clock: 33MHz *-disk product: SanDisk SDCFB-16 physical id: 0 bus info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] logical name: /dev/hdc capabilities: packet Cheers, John -- ... every credible survey which has ever been conducted has concluded that filtering software is to Internet users what meat-mincers are to cows ... -- Mark Newton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 08:51:16 +1000, Martin Pool wrote: I'd recommend filing a bug with as much information you can glean about the PCMCIA/CF adaper as possible. What Jeff says is the right thing to do. Thanks, I will, when I'm sure it is a bug. I bought a Belkin USB 2.0 reader for about $30 and it's *much* faster I have a USB 2.0 reader too, so if I can't get the PCMCIA adapter to work it doesn't matter. desktops if need be. Money well spent in my case. Maybe John's is better. It's as slow as a wet week, but it doesn't make the machine crash, so it's slightly better than yours :-) Cheers, John -- Reality is weird. I'm happy that my brain gives me such a simple view of it :-) -- Tony Barry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
quote who=John Clarke Thanks Jeff. The card is recognised, it's just not mounted automatically: Definitely worth feeding this into a bug. I'd recommend filing a bug with as much information you can glean about the PCMCIA/CF adaper as possible. I want to be sure it's not something that I'm doing (or not doing) first. Is there a config file somewhere I have to edit to make it automount? No. I mean, you can look at the Removable storage preferences dialogue, but I can't imagine you've changed it in any way that would effect this. If USB disks work, this should also work (as far as policy goes). Quick thing you can try - boot with it unplugged, run hal-device-manager, plug it in and see what happens. It sees the adapter when it's plugged in. lshw tells me this: You can see it in hal-device-manager? If so, definitely file a bug. It may just need a bit of hardware ID / capabilities tweaking. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ So please lets focus on preparing to beat up our neighbours instead of spending all the energy on domestic violence. - Christian Schaller on GNOME -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 03:03:04 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: Is there a config file somewhere I have to edit to make it automount? No. I mean, you can look at the Removable storage preferences dialogue, but I can't imagine you've changed it in any way that would effect this. If I haven't changed it at all. That's the first place I looked and it seemed OK to me. You can see it in hal-device-manager? If so, definitely file a bug. It may just need a bit of hardware ID / capabilities tweaking. OK, thanks Jeff, I'll do that. Now to try to get suspend hibernate working properly ... Cheers, John -- And as was widely anticipated, the Canadian election was brought to a conclusion long before the US one. The only surprise, really, was that the CBC still had a heterosexual employee on the payroll. -- Anthony de Boer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] How do I automount CF card when PCMCIA adapter inserted?
Hi all, I have a new (HP) laptop with Ubuntu 6.06. Most things just work :-) I also have a PCMCIA compact flash adapter which works, except that I have to mount the drive manually after inserting it. I'd like to have it automount but having never played with PCMCIA on Linux I don't know what to do to make it happen. Would someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks, John -- I've said it before and I'll say it again. Server rooms should be unfriendly! They should look dangerous, they should be uncomfortably cold, they should be inexplicably noisy. If you can arrange for the smell of burning transistors, that's good too. -- Mike Sphar -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
