On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Mark Courtney wrote:
> The reader seems to show up by scanning.
>
> # cdrecord --scanbus
> <snip>
> scsibus1:
> 1,0,0 100) 'SanDisk ' 'ImageMate CF-SM ' '0100' Removable Disk
> <snip>
Hmm, what's on scsibus0? This might be relevant.
Another route might be to check dmesg for messages regarding the device.
Try:
# grep 'sd' /var/log/dmesg
Or:
# dmesg | grep 'sd'
The latter sometimes isn't so effective, because (IIRC) it outputs a ring
buffer, which may have gotten filled with other logged junk since the
kernel discovered the device.
> I tried to mount it like this, but it didn't work.
>
> # mount -t vfat -orw /dev/sdb1 /mnt/smart
> mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
You might want to try running fdisk on whatever the device is. I.e.:
# fdisk /dev/sdb
and use 'p' to print the partition table (assuming it works, anyway).
Use 'q' to quit.
I seem to recall that Zip disks would vary in the partition used
depending on what filesystem it was. VFAT was 4, as I recall. Kind of
strange, but you never know when history will repeat itself.
Just a couple ideas.
Jima
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