On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:21:14PM -0700, William R. Ward wrote:
> Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I am not sure if I have the same smartmedia pcmcia adaptor as you. But
> > the one I have works beautifully, I insert the pcmcia card, then the
> > smartmedia card. Hear the two beeps (you get no beep until the smarmedia
> > card is inserted) then mount the card to some mountpoint. It appears as
> > an IDE interface to a dos formatted partition.
> > One wierdness though, twice I have somehow destroyed the smartmedia
> > such that it no longer is formatted or registers as a proper block
> > device. I have no idea why, and it makes me somewhat nervouse. But other
> > than that minor (?) issue, all is well.
> > Anyone else have this problem with smartmedia in general? or is it just
> > me?
>
> Insert the PCMCIA card without a SmartMedia card in it? I hadn't
> thought of that. I have been inserting the card with SmartMedia
> already in it.
It doesn't matter on mine, either way works fine.
>
> Another thing that may be an issue is that my SmartMedia card came
> pre-formatted from Olympus. Do I need to reformat it, to make it
> work? How can I reformat it if the computer doesn't even notice that
> it's there? I saw instructions on the web somewhere that involved
> running a format command using /dev/mem0a0 or something like that, but
> there is no such device in my /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to do
> it. Maybe it's called something else under Debian?
>
that sounds like a flashmem device, on the PCMCIA adapter I have, (which
has no markings and came in a plain white box :) the card looks like an
ide device.
> I'm kind of new to the whole PCMCIA thing. I know the PCMCIA port
> works, because I have a 3COM ethernet/modem card which works
> perfectly.
>
> If it matters, I'm running kernel version 2.2.18pre1, custom
> compilation (and corresponding custom pcmcia-cs package), with Debian
> "stable".
>
I have only used the device under 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 so far. But the
pcmcia stuff is external so it shouldn't matter much.
--
Jim Richardson
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