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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 17:15:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>
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Subject: Re: mounting compact flash cards
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I've never used 5.0, but usually, when I need to make a device entry, I
do:

cd /dev ; ./MAKEDEV <device>

If the disk is formatted as a DOS FS, then once you have the device
entries, you should be able to do:

mount -t msdos /dev/ad8s1 /mnt

Joe Clarke

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Jason Barnes wrote:

>
> 	Hi, I'm running FreeBSD-5.0-current-20010501 on a Dell Inspiron
> 4000 laptop.  I am trying to use a Sandisk CompactFlash Pc Card Adapter in
> the PCMCIA slot 0 to read a SanDisk CompactFlash memory card (80MB)
> installed within it.  The card is recognized by pccard:
>
> pccard: card inserted, slot 0
> Jul 8 13:57:24 tc14 pccardd[180]: Card "SunDisk"("SDP")[5/3 0.6] [(null)]
> matched "SunDisk" ("/.*/") [(null)] [(null)]
> ata4 at port 0x240-0x247,0x24e irq 10 slot 0 on pccard0
> ad8: 76MB <SunDisk SDCFB-80> [62/8/32] at ata4-master BIOSPIO]
> Jul 8 13:57:29 tc14 pccardd[180]: ata4: SunDisk (/.*/) inserted
>
> and is apparently installed as ad8.  So far so good.  However, since no
> ad8s1 device exists I apparently cannot mount it.  I ran
> /usr/src/etc/MAKEDEV ad8s1 and get:
>
> WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("ad8s1")
> WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("ad8s1")
> mknod: ad8s1: Operation not supported
> /sbin/mknod ad8s1
>
> 	Running mount on this gives:
>
> tc14# mount_msdos /dev/ad8s1 /camera
> WARNING: Driver mistake: repeat make_dev("ad8s1")
> mount_msdos: /dev/ad8s1: No such file or directory
>
> 	Indeed there isn't an ad8s1 in /dev, so this is not a surprise.
> There is, however, an ad8s1b, attempting to mount it gives:
>
> tc14# mount_msdos /dev/ad8s1b /camera
> mount_msdos: /dev/ad8s1b: Invalid argument
>
> 	The same happens for ad8s1a, the other device present in /dev with
> ad8 in it.
> 	I think the problem here is that I don't understand the new 5.0
> device system yet :(  Anyway, I apologize for my lack of knowledge, and if
> anyone would be able to help me out I would apreciate it greatly.  Thank
> you for your time.
>
> 				- Jason
>
>
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