Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-05 Thread MHR
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The person who owns the computer in question just sent me an email to say that > the card reader is now working. She plugged in her flash drive and that > didn't > work either, so she rebooted the machine and now the flash

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-05 Thread Niki Kovacs
Frank Cox a écrit : I've just got a card reader and it doesn't automount. I can mount it manually with "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp" and that works fine. I would prefer to have it automount and give me the desktop icon. Unfortunately, I don't yet know enough about the automounting mechanism to k

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-05 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:54:53 -0600 Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having given this more thought, I'm wondering if the problem may be that the > reader isn't reporting the presence of the card. Since nothing appears to > happen when a card is inserted into the reader, Centos has no way of

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:24:46 -0700 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just going on my own experience here - I have one, older card > reader that mounts only when there's a card in it when I plug it in, > and I unplug the reader before unplugging the card, too (usually after > unmounting it, too

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have plugged it in with a card already in the reader. As previously > stated, I > can then mount it manually and read the contents of the card. > Actually, you didn't specify in your original post whether or not you had a

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:50:08 -0700 MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that a card reader is not a storage device per se and, > hence, does not mount until you connect it with a card plugged into it > or plug a card into it. I've never used mine any other way, and it > always works just fi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread MHR
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To this point, whenever I've plugged a storage device (flash drive, mp3 > player) > into a USB plug, it's magically mounted and I get an icon on my desktop. > > I've just got a card reader and it doesn't automount. I can mount

[CentOS] Centos 5 card reader automount

2008-09-04 Thread Frank Cox
To this point, whenever I've plugged a storage device (flash drive, mp3 player) into a USB plug, it's magically mounted and I get an icon on my desktop. I've just got a card reader and it doesn't automount. I can mount it manually with "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/temp" and that works fine. I would pre