From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 17:47:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F58816A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:47:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.knology.net (smtp.knology.net [24.214.63.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92CAD43D3F for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:47:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dkelly@HiWAAY.net) Received: (qmail 16464 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2004 17:47:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.68?) (69.73.60.132) by smtp2.knology.net with SMTP; 26 Jul 2004 17:47:08 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) In-Reply-To: <1756b9c1756974.17569741756b9c@socal.rr.com> References: <1756b9c1756974.17569741756b9c@socal.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Kelly Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 12:47:04 -0500 To: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Subject: Re: Changing cards in a reader (next step??) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:47:15 -0000 On Jul 26, 2004, at 12:26 PM, hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > I have followed all suggestions and responded with the output of my > attemps. The problem remains unresolved. I have also requested that > if anyone has this working *properly* to respond but no one did. Why not install /usr/ports/emulators/mtools/ and configure "O:" drive ("O" for Olympus) as /dev/da2s1 ? Then one does not have to be root to insert or remove the card. Just access the card with mdir, mcopy, mdel, mcd, etc ... Yank the card out any time you are not using it and insert another just as one does with tar and tapes. I'm thinking your issue is probably within mount_msdos. Mtools implement the DOS filesystem internally. Each M-command issued starts at the start of media, finds the directory and volume data, then goes to the appropriate file(s), completely from scratch each time. So there is no "mount". It does tend to remember current directory. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.