Re: smart media card reader problem
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote:
> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net> writes:
> >
> > No, you're right: it must be the kernel drivers. I've now
> > discovered it is worse than you described. I have no complicated
> > filesystems on any of the media, but after mounting any one of them
> > it is necessary to reboot before you can mount any other type.
> > This applies also to smart media and to SD cards - not just to the
> > disgo. Now that is tedious...
>
> Worse.. don't know. What happens is that when you unplug a usb
> storage device and plug in a different one, it gets assigned a
> different drive letter. What used to be /dev/sda is now
> /dev/sdb. The reboot resets the counter.
>
> In your case then, after plugging in the second device, try
> /dev/sdb<something> in your mount command.
I thought I'd tried all the likely ones, but must have missed the
correct one then. I'll investigate next time. Thanks.
--
richard
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