Rick Green
07/29/02 12:10PM >>> The other day, a friend handed me the CF card from his digital camera. I inserted it into a CF-PCMCIA adapter and slid it into my laptop. `cardctl ident` easily told me that I had an ATA storage device
Hello, Rick. I don't know if this is much help, but I did a clean SuSE8 install on a machine yesterday that had the USB CF adapter attached, and it was autodetected by the system. For me, it shows up on /dev/sdc, where sda and sdb are my two genuine SCSI hard drives. These things tend to show up as /dev/sd? depending upon what other SCSI or pseudo-SCSI devices you have. If I remember rightly, fdisk -l /dev/sdc (that's a lower case L above) showed me the partitions on the CF card. Of course, there was only one, but this command may help you to discover which device you need to reference since there will only be partitions on an available device. This would help to eliminate, for example, the CD drive(s) if you ran the command on them with no disc in them. The installation also created an icon for it on the desktop, although it used a floppy drive icon instead of a hard drive icon. Oh, well, if it's that important to me, I can manage changing that. Bye for now, Stuart. there, but at that point I was stumped. I could not for the life of me figure out what device file in /dev/ I needed to reference when mounting it! <snip>