Re: How to read phone memory card?
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:15:07PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> Does anyone know how can Debian read a mobile phone memory card?
>>
>> I think I properly inserted the card into the PC, but then, how to mount it -
>> *if* possible?
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> writes:
> I don't know since my phone doesn't have a memory card. When you insert
> the card, what does dmesg and syslog say? If its going to be treated as
> a mountable device (a drive), it will be assigned a /dev/sd* number. I
> don't know if they're partitioned, so run cfdisk on it to see if there
> are partitions. Once you know that, mount either the whole drive or a
> partition as seems appropriate. You'll need a mount point.
John Stumbles <john.stumbles@ntlworld.com> writes:
> On my etch system with kde when I insert a card into a card reader I get a
> window popping up asking me if I want to 'open' it, by which it means
> (p)mounting it as /media/sdX1 and opening a konqueror filebrowser window on
> the mounted system. If that doesn't happen, or you tell it not to, you can
> pmount it yourself. You just have to know what X is, which depends on the
> mysteries and vagaries of usb, but you can get a clue from dmesg.
Thanks for your replies, but not lsusb nor dmesg or fcdisk seem to tell
anything about what the device could be. In the output of dmesg there's no
`sd*' entry.
Rodolfo
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