[ltp] Can't mount CF card in PC Slot - need device name?

[James Mckenzie]

H. Hound:

Try running dmesg and pipe it the the more command you should see the
device loading and the device name.

James Mckenzie

On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 06:37, H Hound wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad 770E with SuSE linux 8.1 loaded.  When I insert a Sandisk 
> 128Meg CF card in the PCMCIA slot, I can do a cardctl status, and ident and 
> see it correctly identified as an ATA/IDE device; I can also see in the logs 
> that there is a 3.3v memory device in slot 0 in the logs.  But I see no 
> reference to a device number that I can mount.  I have looked in both 
> /var/log/messages, and /var/lib/pcmcia/stab for a clue as to what it might 
> be named, and don't see any.  I do see my CDROM, and hda1 thru 6 (my primary 
> harddrive partitions), and when I insert it, my ethernet card eth0.  So how 
> can I figure out what my compact flash device number is?  Is there someplace 
> else I need to look? Do I need to configure something to get the system to 
> recognize the CF card?
> 
> Help appreciated.
> 
> - H. Hound
> 
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