Re: CF & MemoryStick Reader
Kevin Coyner said:
>
>
> I've got a 4-in-1 USB card reader that can accomodate Sony MemoryStick
> and CF.
>
> To get started, I used directions from
>
> http://vic.dyndns.org/linux-UsbMassStorage/
>
> and
>
> http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux
>
> Using sg_scan -i and sg_map, it was fairly easy to figure out things
> out. So I plugged in a MemoryStick and mounted it. No problems.
>
> However, next I tried the CF, using the same procedure (and remember,
> this is the same reader). And unfortunately, this one would not
> mount.
>
> I continually get:
>
> mount: block device /dev/sde1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: /dev/sde1 is not a valid block device
>
> Note that sda1 and sdb1 are my scsi harddrives. Which means that the
> 4-in-1 card reader is mapped to sdc, sdd, sde and sdf. Through trial
> and error I figured out that the MemoryStick was sdf1. So for the CF,
> I
> tried the other 3, but each time got "not a valid block device". And
> yes, the CF card was in the reader.
Try mounting it just as /dev/sde rather than also giving it a
partition number. Strange but sometimes that's what works on some
memory devices.
G
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Gerald
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