On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:35:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to be able to read/write my CF Card which stores photos > from a digital camera. > I have a CF -> PCMCIA adapter, and my card is dentified by the system.
CompactFlash is compatible with ATA, also known as IDE. They're not the same as PCMCIA Flash cards. Your CF card will show up like an IDE hard disk, usually /dev/hdc, and is normally used with just one partition with an MS-DOS file system on it. Depending on your camera, the pictures are probably .jpg files stored in some directory on the card. The easy way to get it mounted for you is to edit /etc/pcmcia/ide.opts to give it a mount point, perhaps with OPTS="uid=1000" or something similar to get the files writable by a certain user. Bear in mind that you should unmount the CF card, or at least run sync(1), before ejecting it. To sum it up, it's really a lot less tricky than the old FTL cards, and I'm sure you'll be satisfied with the result. I have myself used two CF cards to transfer data between two different cameras, a TRGpro, and my Palmax laptop - the only problem I had was that one CF card was a bit slow, and took a few retries before it would be detected. Feel free to ask again if I'm just confusing matters :)
