Sorry, I forgot to mention that it's a USB reader. On Sun, 22 February 2004 4:32 pm, you wrote:

I have an older Lexar Media card reader that I use to read my compact flash cards. I recently switched from XP to SuSE 9 running KDE 3.1.4. How do I gain access to my card reader under Linux?

Thanks.

-- Bill Lugg Milstar Software Support Peterson AFB, CO Editor, The Western Railroader A publication of the Pacific Coast Chapter, Railway & Locomotive Historical Society

On Sunday 22 February 2004 19:04, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:

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I have an older Lexar Media card reader that I use to read my compact flash cards. I recently switched from XP to SuSE 9 running KDE 3.1.4. How do I gain access to my card reader under Linux?

easiest way is to have a card in the drive when you plug it in... other than that it's mount and umount, BUT, you will not be able to mount the reader if/when it is cardless, there is nothing to mount...

I really need to jump in, here & find out... How do you get the card reader to umount? Mine always reports itself as busy. That goes for smbfs shares or whatever else I mount. Only one thing works: shutdown, remove the card reader, reboot. ...CH

On Sunday 22 February 2004 21:35, BandiPat wrote: <SNIP> >

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I really need to jump in, here & find out... How do you get the card reader to umount? Mine always reports itself as busy. That goes for smbfs shares or whatever else I mount. Only one thing works: shutdown, remove the card reader, reboot.

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CH,

Sounds like you haven't been away from Windows very long, new to Linux? ;o) No... not really... I'm very new to SuSE, though. <G> I used to use Mandrake.

A few ways to accomplish this, the shell/konsole, right click on the icon, choose unmount. If you get a busy message on the device, then open a shell, type: lsof /dev/sdxx (your device ID)

I am familiar w/the right-clicked icon & 'unmount' but I was unaware of the command you specify. Thanks. :-)

That will tell you what process is tying up the device and at that point, just type: kill <pid number> Then you should be able to easily unmount the device! Reboots are for wimps & windows users, make the break, step out of line! ;o)

I'm also familiar w/the 'ps aux' so that one can determine what process one wants to kill. ...And you're correct. Reboots *are* for those you outline. <LOL> Thanks for the info! :-) ...CH