On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, <emeulen@altavista.net> wrote:
> I would like to be able to read/write my CF Card which stores photo's
> from a digital camera. I have a CF -> PCMCIA adapter, and my card is
> dentified by the system. The output of the 'cardctl ident' command is:
I have a CompactFlash card working myself, so that I can easily share
files (and backups) between my laptop and my TPGpro Palm Pilot.
[...]
> Socket 1:
> product info: "SiliconTech,Inc.", "32MB Compact PC
> Card", "Ver 3.0"
> manfid: 0x014d, 0x0001
> function: 4 (fixed disk)
The `function' field here is quite important -- it tells you that PCMCIA
sees the card as a `fixed disk' device (hard disk), not a `memory'
device.
> So Socket 1 contains the card. Now the PCMCIA FAQ suggests something
> like:
[...]
> Could not stat /dev/ftl0c0 --- No such file or directory
>
> I have also discovered a script ftl in /etc/pcmcia, but I cannot seem
> to do anything useful with that.
Yup. This is a feature(tm) of CompactFlash cards. They actually have a
little chip in them that pretends it's really a hard disk drive, rather
than a block of memory.
What you need to do is ensure that you have the `ide_cs' module
available in the `pcmcia' directory. That is the module needed to access
the card.
When you plug the card in, you can then mount it, fdisk it, etc, just
like a hard disk. `/var/log/kern.log' or a similar file will spit out
the logging indicating which drive it is -- but, assuming you didn't add
any extra drive controllers, the CF card lands as `hde'.
If you read the section in the PCMCIA HOWTO about IDE devices, that
should cover the setup and stuff.
Let me know if you need more help and I will try and write a simple
cookbook to make it work.
Daniel
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