I forgot to mention that I know where my stupid card is showing up... It is in /dev/pd/disc0/
However, I can't mount the partition in there, and I can't run fdisk on it... So... I feel like I am close. Help! On Saturday 25 May 2002 03:21 am, you wrote: > Well, I am making a little bit of progress here... My system is > hard-locking sometimes now, which I think is a bad sign... But anyhow... > > Here's where I'm at. > > I figured out some modules to install, and now dmesg reports this to me: > > paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) > paride: epat registered as protocol 0 > pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0 > epat_init_protopda: Sharing parport0 at 0x378 > pda: epat 1.02, Shuttle EPAT chip c7 at 0x378, mode 5 (EPP-32), delay 1 > pda: Hitachi ATA Ca, master, 125184 blocks [61M], (978/4/32), removable > media pda: p1 > > > So... I think this is a good thing, cuz that means that it is seeing my > 64MB flash card in there... And it is apparently device pda, and the first > partition would be pda1... HOWEVER... In /dev/, there is NO pd* at all.... > > What do I do? > > On Friday 24 May 2002 11:17 pm, I wrote: > > Hey there. > > > > I have this compact flash card reader, and it plugs into my parallel > > port. > > > > Back in September, when just before I started using Linux full-time, I > > had Windows XP installed for about two weeks. > > > > It picked up the reader as a generic storage device. > > > > I could never get this thing to work in Win2k, and the drivers in Win98 > > were quite buggy. > > > > Now, I am wondering how I get this thing to work in Linux. > > > > Since WinXP used a generic driver for parallel port storage devices, I am > > wondering if there is such a thing for Linux... > > > > I got my USB flash card reader to work without any special download this, > > compile that, probe this, edit that... > > > > But since that reader won't read my 64MB CF card, it is nearly useless to > > me. > > > > Please help me get this thing to work. > > > > Thanks. > > > > The model would be a MDCFE-SR by Datafab, although it shouldn't make much > > of a difference.
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