[I saw this in the Novmber archive too.] >Hi, > >the last weekend, I've installed Debian on an portege 3020ct. I've done the >basic-install from a dos-partition. Now my problem is: >How can I mount my PCMCIA-IDE-CDROM (Freecom)? A "normal" IDE-device I would >mount with /dev/hdb or something like that, but what's the device-name of a >PCMCIA device like mentioned above? > >Thanks in forward, > >Robert
I use a PCMCIA based CD too. When you insert it, you are adding a new IDE interface. Since each IDE chain holds two, /dev/hdb is the second item on your internal chain (probably forever useless). Your CD will should be /dev/hdc. It's pretty rare for it to come up as the secondary and be /dev/hdd, but if you're at a text console when you insert it, card services should actually mention the dev it got assigned. It's -very- uncommon but when I'm being experimental :) card services might not properly "give back" the second IDE when I release it, and if that's the case it might come up as a third or even fourth IDE chain when reinserted. If you're doing something crazy with devs that might cause that, just keep going up by letter pairs -- or clear your experiment with a reboot when it gets past your pre-created nodes... (btw I haven't got that effect anymore since I stopped messing with an apparently unsupported LS-120 pcmcia device.) * Heather
