Re: Getting photos from USB compactFlash into linux

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

J F wrote:

> I've always wanted automounter to work.  
> I thought of it as mounting an NFS disk on another
> computer, but it would be cool if it works for flash.
> It's still not working, and I wonder if the compactflash 
> reader hardware is
> burned out or if the flash card is not formated:
>
> root@a2000xp:/#  mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usb
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> root@a2000xp:/# ls -lad /usb
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jul 28 19:47 /usb
>
> Oh well, still not working.  I'll try some more things
> in the morning. Thanks.
>  

As root
fdisk -l /dev/sda

A mate of mine has a problem: his "disk" wanders. First time it's sda, 
then sdb etc. You might check for that:
for d in a b c d e f g h i j k; do fdisk -l /dev/sd{d};done






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John

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