Re: mount PCMCIA-CD-ROM?
[I saw this in the Novmber archive too.]
>Hi,
>
>the last weekend, I've installed Debian on an portege 3020ct. I've done the
>basic-install from a dos-partition. Now my problem is:
>How can I mount my PCMCIA-IDE-CDROM (Freecom)? A "normal" IDE-device I would
>mount with /dev/hdb or something like that, but what's the device-name of a
>PCMCIA device like mentioned above?
>
>Thanks in forward,
>
>Robert
I use a PCMCIA based CD too. When you insert it, you are adding a new
IDE interface. Since each IDE chain holds two, /dev/hdb is the second
item on your internal chain (probably forever useless).
Your CD will should be /dev/hdc. It's pretty rare for it to come up as
the secondary and be /dev/hdd, but if you're at a text console when you
insert it, card services should actually mention the dev it got assigned.
It's -very- uncommon but when I'm being experimental :) card services
might not properly "give back" the second IDE when I release it, and
if that's the case it might come up as a third or even fourth IDE chain
when reinserted. If you're doing something crazy with devs that might
cause that, just keep going up by letter pairs -- or clear your experiment
with a reboot when it gets past your pre-created nodes...
(btw I haven't got that effect anymore since I stopped messing with an
apparently unsupported LS-120 pcmcia device.)
* Heather
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