[ltp] Report: trouble with pcmcia disk drive?

[Peter F. Patel-Schneider]

Hi:

Did this ever get resolved?

Do you know whether it is related to the oft-reported problem of CF
cards in PCMCIA adapters?

peter



From: John - <JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com>
Subject: [ltp] Report: trouble with pcmcia disk drive?
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:15:54 -0400

> If you've been having trouble getting your pcmcia disk drive found
> recently, as I have, the problem may well be with the latest udev. A
> line in its persistent.rules disables such drives because udev does
> not know how to handle them. After flailing around, I finally
> downgraded from udev 0.105-4 all the way back to 0.098-2, and now I
> get the usual dmesg report, 
> 
> hdi: TOSHIBA THNCF064MBA, CFA DISK drive
> ide4 at 0x5100-0x5107,0x510e on irq 3
> hdi: max request size: 128KiB
> hdi: 125184 sectors (64 MB) w/2KiB Cache, CHS=978/4/32
>  hdi: hdi1
> ide-cs: hdi: Vpp = 0.0
> 
> When I have time, I'll either spend the time to learn how to write
> udev rules, or maybe go up through successive versions and see where
> the trouble began. Or -- who knows -- maybe the udev developers will
> fix it before I get around to such desparate measures?
> 
> Anyway, just a report from a not-very-knowledgeable user for others
> who may be in the same boat.
> 
> -- 
> JohnRChamplin@columbus.rr.com