On Sunday 06 April 2003 15:11, expatriate wrote:
OK, here is what happened. Following Dylan's advice, I plugged the card into the reader first and then the reader into the USB port. I was unable to mount it. I then rebooted the machine (just a hunch) and voila! I could mount the reader (read-only though). I found out that attempting to mount the reader sans card would cause ALL subsequent mount attempts to fail. The only sure-fire way to make it work is to: 0) Reboot 1) put card in reader, plug reader on USB (wait for beep), mount /dev/sda1 2) read from card 3) umount /dev/sda1, unplug reader from USB, remove card from reader 4) Goto Step 1 for subsequent cards
I don't know about the [initial] reboot step, somehow the driver gets "hosed" when attempting to mount an empty reader and my limited intelligence did not allow me to figure out another way to "unhose" the driver. Any ideas?
OK, I don't have a problem with mounting new cards, so my 'step 4' would be goto 'step 1' instead of 0. The command "rchotplug restart" (issued as root w/out quotes) sould clear the problem, removing the need to reboot. Dylan -- It is a dark day...