[ale] Q: how to mount CF card in SanDisk USB reader

[John Mills]

Michael -

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

> I'm not at my box right now, and it's mandrake, but I'm pretty sure that I 
> just do "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cflash" which means "mount a windows 
> filesystem which is the first partition on my first scsi disk at the 
> directory /mnt/cflash".  Of course, I did "mkdir /mnt/cflash" first.

> What I did to figure things out is "tail -f /var/log/messages" (as root), 
> then plug the sandisk drive into my usb port.  Then plug a CF card into 
> the slot.  You get a bunch of semi-cryptic messages that should give you 
> some clues as to where the devices got created.  It should show up as a 
> scsi disk.

Interesting - this gybes with what Thomas Mazukna had to say. I'll go 
fishing. I have one 'real' SCSI host (w/2 scanners) and one 'fakey' for 
SCSI-over-IDE to the CD-RW already. I expect this will be another 'fakey' 
- anyway I'll see soon.

Thanks to you both.

 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu


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