compact flash

[phobik]

hi

i have slackware 9.1 installed and want to add a usb compact flash reader.
i have read various other posts but cant seem to get it working at all.
apparently the device should be /dev/sda1 but when i try to mount it i get the error "this is not a block device" or something along those lines.

could someone help me get this working please

cheers

[SuperNu]

First have to have usb working. If you don't, and you have a usb device then it won't work. Now, the way I got my memory stick reader to work with Red Hat 9 was to open up a console, type tail -f /var/log/messages and plug in my reader into a usb port. When I did this, the messages mentioned which device in /dev was being used. After that, I ran mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb from the command line as root. Once I verified that mount worked, I unmounted the memory stick reader and added a line to /etc/fstab.

--SN

[phobik]

hi m8

thanks for the input, here is what i get when i plug the cf reader in.

ov 25 20:19:05 slackbox kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-2.3, assigned address 5
Nov 25 20:19:05 slackbox kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 25 20:19:07 slackbox kernel: sda: sda1
Nov 25 20:19:10 slackbox usb.agent[1514]: missing kernel or user mode driver usb-storage

so im guessing i need to compile usb-storage into my kernel, right?
if i do lsmod usb-storage is loaded but unused = me confused

cheers

[phobik]

Well i managed to get it working as root but not as a normal user.
I get an "access denied to /mnt/cf" error.
I have tried changing the permissions, but when i mount it again the permissions reset themselves.

How do i change the permissions and get them to stick please?

cheers

[knute]

In your /etc/fstab file you need to add the users option so that users can access it.

I'm not at my comp atm, so I can't provide an example of where it needs to go, but it's where rw or ro would be... as in rw,users.

HTH

[phobik]

Originally posted by knute
In your /etc/fstab file you need to add the users option so that users can access it.


this is what i have in my fstab

/dev/sda1 /mnt/cf vfat users,umask=000,rw 1 0

however, this dosent work, to get it to work i have to unplug it,plug it back in and then mount it.
im not really fussed at the mo about getting it to mount automatically, if i could access it as a normal user id be happy

cheers

[SuperNu]

My line from /etc/fstab is /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto noauto,rw,user,nosuid,noexec,nodev,sync 0 0. I am sure that I have went a little overboard on the options, but it works perfectly. The thing I would change is to switch the 1 to 0. I don't think that you need it.

--SN