At Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:43:36 -0700, Grant Robinson wrote: > > > On Jan 2, 2004, at 10:26 PM, Scott Paul Robertson wrote: > > > I got a USB Cardreader for Christmas, and felt confidant about it > > working down here after checking in knoppix. But Mandrake seems to be > > having problems. Here's what the Mandrake hardware config tool is > > telling me. > > > > New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > > Old device file: /dev/sda > > > > It lists 4 devices for the reader (there's four readers in it) as sda, > > sdb, sdc, sdd. In the devfs listing it changes lun0, lun1, lun2, lun3 > > > > What do I need to do to set it up so I've got listings in /mnt? > > Listings in /mnt are created manually by you. Trial and error will > probably tell you which of the four readers you are going to be using. > Assuming it is sda, you would add a line to your /etc/fstab file: > /dev/sda /mnt/cardreader fstype defaults permissions 0 0 > > replacing fstype with the filesystem type (probably vfat or auto) and > permissions with what you want (probably user,owner,noexec). Make the > /mnt/cardreader directory, and then say: > mount /mnt/cardreader > > and you should be good to go. I think that's what I had to do to use > my card reader under Linux. I may have forgotten a few things, though. > Hope that helps.
One warning if you are using a recent version of Mandrake is that they probably have already set up supermount to automatically create a directory in /mnt and mount your card reader there when you insert a memory card. This is how my digital camera works. It's kind of like magic (actually, it's kind of like, really convenient, but I haven't traced through to see how it works exactly yet). Don't mess with anything yet, just put the card in and see if an icon appears on your desktop. ***Don't try and use any mount commands on this!!!!*** That will really screw up supermount. I've outsmarted it int this way before and caused problems before. If you have already messed with stuff (like modifying your /etc/fstab, or just trying to mount it from the command line) just undo those changes, re-boot, and try just plugging it in and waiting a sec. Just close your eyes and pretend you are using windows. Don't worry if the icon doesn't disappear again when you unplug the card reader, or take out the card, or turn your camera off or whatever. It would be nice if it did, but I guess the Mandrake folks haven't perfected that yet. If you really hate supermount and really want to use mount and umount the old fashioned unix way you can remove supermount (urpme supermount will probably do). Some people think supermount causes problems and I've seen where suggest doing just that. Personally, I like it. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
