if it's CompactFlash, then it's got an ide interface. I've always had them mount as
the /dev just after your last IDE bus: usually /dev/hde1
and it's always been vfat for me -- long filenames.
hope this helps.
glen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:05:19AM +0200, thomas wrote:
>
>
> I have a 64MB flash memory card with a pcmcia adapter.
>
> As far as I know those things use ide/ata interface.
> It worked this way on my old Laptop with a potato frozen
> release. I could mount it with something like
> "mount -t msdos /dev/hde1 /flash".
>
> Something changed in the meanwhile with potato r3
> instead ide_cs some memory_cs and sram modules
> get loaded. Is this correct and if so how do I access the card now?
> A mount on /dev/mem0 fails of course (no valid block device).
>
> My overall feeling is that the card is not recocnized correctly.
> Does anybody have or had a similar problem ?
>
>
>
> Remarks:
>
> It does not seem to be a hardware Problem: I copied the old Potato frozen System
> on the new Laptop and it does work just like it did on the old Laptop ( well
> it is hdc now and used to be hde)
>
> I will get pretty much the same thing when using kernel 2.2.19 and the original
> potato pcmcia-cs package instead of Adrian Bunks kernel 2.4 stuff.
>
> I also tried to use the provided 2.4 kernel moduls, but have even more troubles
> with those.
>
> I also did rebuild and install the pcmcia-deb package with modules for any kernel
> and any kernel configuration I tried.
>
> I can't remember to have changed anything to the pcmcia system when I installed the
> old sysmtem, but it is a long time ago.
>
>
> Here is some more out put from syslog
>
> old Potato frozen preRelease , Kernel 2.2.15
> PCMCIA Package: pcmcia-cs (3.1.8-14) frozen
>
> Jul 4 06:39:56 tofila cardmgr[127]: initializing socket 0
> Jul 4 06:39:56 tofila cardmgr[127]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
> Jul 4 06:39:56 tofila cardmgr[127]: executing: 'insmod
>/lib/modules/2.2.15/pcmcia/ide_cs.o'
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: hdc: PQI FLASH DISK 1201N Rev990903, ATA DISK drive
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: ide1 at 0x100-0x107,0x10e on irq 3
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: hdc: PQI FLASH DISK 1201N Rev990903, 63MB w/0kB
>Cache, CHS=1014/8/16
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: hdc: hdc1
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: ide_cs: hdc: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila cardmgr[127]: executing: './ide start hdc'
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: hdc: hdc1
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete
>Error }
> Jul 4 06:40:00 tofila kernel: hdc: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
>
>
>
>
> Potato r3 , Kernel 2.4.5
> PCMCIA Package: pcmcia-cs (3.1.25-2.bunk)
>
> Jul 4 09:56:01 io cardmgr[175]: executing: 'modprobe -r memory_cs'
> Jul 4 09:56:01 io cardmgr[175]: executing: 'modprobe -r sram_mtd'
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io cardmgr[175]: initializing socket 0
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io cardmgr[175]: socket 0: Anonymous Memory
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io cardmgr[175]: executing: 'modprobe sram_mtd'
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io cardmgr[175]: Common memory region at 0x0: Generic or SRAM
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io cardmgr[175]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs'
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io kernel: sram_mtd: common at 0x0, 2 kb, 400 ns
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io cardmgr[175]: executing: './memory start mem0'
> Jul 4 09:56:13 io kernel: memory_cs: mem0: common 2 kb
>
>
>
>
> thanks
>
> Thomas
>
>
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