On 23 Nov 2003, nick murphy stated:

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Now that I have installed SuSE 9 I cannot mount my digital camera's Compact Flash card via USB port. I was able to on SuSE 8.2.

The file system on the Compact Flash card is vfat apparently, because I get this on SuSE 9 when I try the mount command:

# mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel

The above mount command had been working on SuSE 8.2 but now that I have SuSE 9 installed I am getting that, "mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel" error in SuSE 9.

Is this REALLY a true limitation of SuSE 9?

Or is there something else going wrong?

How can I fix this?

Frustrated because this was such a slick thing on SuSE 8.2 -- just plug the Compact Flash card indo my system's USB port with my SimpleTech USB to Compact Flash adapter. Now it doesn't work :-\

Thanks for any tips!

Works for me on both 8.2 and 9. I have multicard reader and just plug it in, wait and it automounts. There have been some reports about acpi messing up usb in 9.0. You could try acpi=off at the boot prompt.

Ahh this is a question I was about to ask and has just been answered :) Sean -- GPG Key Id 120A02FB ICQ: 679813 Jabber: tcobone@jabber.org SuSE 9.0 for when you want to spend time doinmg and not rebooting

On 23 Nov 2003, Marcus Meissner outgrape:

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# mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel

The above mount command had been working on SuSE 8.2 but now that I have SuSE 9 installed I am getting that, "mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel" error in SuSE 9.

Is this REALLY a true limitation of SuSE 9?

Did you compile your own kernel?

Nope, I have not tried it as I have not taken any photos recently :) Sean -- GPG Key Id 120A02FB ICQ: 679813 Jabber: tcobone@jabber.org SuSE 9.0 for when you want to spend time doinmg and not rebooting

Wait, scratch my last message I just posted about "acpi=off". BandiPat Lee has the *real* fix -- just plug the media in before booting up the computer! Come to think of it, that might be how I got it to work on SuSE 8, too. "rchotplug restart" as root did not work for me by the way. The card reader just isn't hot swapable I guess, even with that. Simply plug in the media before booting up; it WORKS. Standard conflation of procedures on my part thinking the boot prompt did it. *Didn't*. Was having the media plugged in at bootup that makes the card reader work okay. It is just not hot swappable on SuSE 9, although it is on my wife's Windows XP (but remember to unmount it with the littile green icon on Windows XP at bottom right of screen if you try it on Windows). Thanks everyone for your help! You all make it possible. Roger :-) On Sunday 23 November 2003 07:50, BandiPat wrote:

On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:31 am, Roger Chrisman wrote:

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Hi,

Now that I have installed SuSE 9 I cannot mount my digital camera's Compact Flash card via USB port. I was able to on SuSE 8.2.

The file system on the Compact Flash card is vfat apparently, because I get this on SuSE 9 when I try the mount command:

# mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel

The above mount command had been working on SuSE 8.2 but now that I have SuSE 9 installed I am getting that, "mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel" error in SuSE 9.

Is this REALLY a true limitation of SuSE 9?

Or is there something else going wrong?

How can I fix this?

Frustrated because this was such a slick thing on SuSE 8.2 -- just plug the Compact Flash card indo my system's USB port with my SimpleTech USB to Compact Flash adapter. Now it doesn't work :-\

Thanks for any tips!

Roger

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Roger, SuSE 9.0 seems to do this function as easily as 8.2 did for me. I have an internal 6-in-1 card reader, but I did have to insert a card into the reader when booting up, for it to get it's initial setup in /etc/fstab. These usb items are oddities still, so a little niggling is usually required. Very seldom have I not seen a device work after booting the machine with media installed.

Basically, connect the device with media installed, boot the computer and I think you will find an icon on your desktop ready for you to mount it like I did. :o)

Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:24, Sean Rima wrote:

On 23 Nov 2003, Roger Chrisman stated:

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Wait, scratch my last message I just posted about "acpi=off".

BandiPat Lee has the *real* fix -- just plug the media in before booting up the computer! Come to think of it, that might be how I got it to work on SuSE 8, too.

I bought a single CF reader of off ebay and it seems to be hot swappable. Well I only have one card atm :)

Sean

Sean, (1) What brand Compact Flash adapter are you using? (2) Is it USB? (3) What version of SuSE are you using it on? As for mine, I am using a SimpleTech (brand) FlashLink (widget name) USB Compact Flash card adapter (widget kind), on SuSE 9. It hot swaps on my wife's Windows XP box but not on this Linux box. I'd love to have it hot swappable on Linux. Might even buy whatever kind you have to achieve that. Thanks, Roger :-)

On Sunday 23 November 2003 12:16, Roger Chrisman wrote:

BandiPat Lee has the *real* fix -- just plug the media in before booting up the computer! Come to think of it, that might be how I got it to work on SuSE 8, too.

Certainly that is better than nothing, but to me it does not sound ideal to have to reboot every time we want to use compact flash. ******************************************************** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.2 Professional KDE 3.1.1 KMail 1.5.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net ********************************************************

On Sunday 23 November 2003 02:51 pm, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Bryan Tyson [11-23-03 12:55]:

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On Sunday 23 November 2003 12:16, Roger Chrisman wrote:

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BandiPat Lee has the *real* fix -- just plug the media in before booting up the computer! Come to think of it, that might be how I got it to work on SuSE 8, too.

Certainly that is better than nothing, but to me it does not sound ideal to have to reboot every time we want to use compact flash.

It isn't and you do not have to. You MUST mount/umount when plugging/unplugging the chip or you will hang the usb-hotmount and 'rchotplug restart' does not appear to correct unplugging w/o umounting. THAT requires a reboot (at least as far as I have found). -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org ============

Patrick's right Bryan, you don't have too! Once booted up and the device is added to your fstab, everything should be ok after that. Just be sure to "unmount" the inserted card after finishing with it. Lee -- --- KMail v1.5.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...

* Roger Chrisman [11-23-03 18:38]:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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You MUST mount/umount when plugging/unplugging the chip or you will hang the usb-hotmount and 'rchotplug restart' does not appear to correct unplugging w/o umounting. THAT requires a reboot (at least as far as I have found).

Patrick, thank you. That appears to be what happened.

Thread Conclusion:

HOWTO

Hot Plug USB Compact Flash Card Reader + Card (in SuSE 9):

(1) Just plug in the USB Compact Flash Card Reader + Card with computer on. (2) Mount it by (a) clicking on the "sda1" drive icon on your desktop if it shows up there, OR (b) in Konsol, command "mount /media/sda1".

If it doesn't work (you may get some weird error message like "fs vfat not supported by kernel") straighten this out by "Cold Plugging" -- restart your computer with the media attached; see below).

Cold Plug USB Compact Flash Card Reader + Card (in SuSE 9):

This step should never be necessary. I suspect what you are facing is that the drive is NOT ALWAYS /dev/sda#. I regularly hot-swap a 250mb zip-drive and a compact-flash card reader and they frequently come up as /dev/sdb#, occasionally one will be /dev/sdb# and the other /dev/sda#. My zip-drive is #4 and my card reader is #1.

! IMPORTANT ! Always unmount media *before* unplugging it: (a) right clicking the drive icon and selecting "Unmoun", OR (b) in Konsol, command "umount /media/sda1".

It may not be /media/sda#, see previous note. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org