Re: [SLE] SuSE 9 + Compact Flash card (vfat)

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To: nick murphy <nickmurphy@blueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 08:29:16 -0800

Nick,

That fixed it -- I put the following into the boot prompt at startup:

        acpi=off

and suddenly my USB card reader WORKS!

A disk labelled "sda1" appears on my desktop with my digital camera's folders
and files in it, just as it did in SuSE 8.2. Thank goodness.

The thought, "fs type vfat not supported by kernel," scared me. Perhaps acpi +
SuSE 9 work together on some and not on other hardware.

My system is a 1.2 GHz Durron on a Elitegroup K7SOM+ 7.5c(L) motherboard
booting SuSE 9 with Grub. I have not compiled my own kernel.

Thanks a million!

Wondering what "acpi" is, I entered it into the sdb search and got these
titles:

    * Problems with Power Management (SuSE 8.1) (03.25.2003)
    * Kernel Parameters for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
(06.13.2003)
    * Black Screen During Booting/Display Problems (07.07.2003)
    * VMware 3.0 on SuSE Linux 7.3: Windows 2000 As Raw Disk and ACPI
(03.07.2002)

See http://sdb.suselinux.hu/cgi-bin/sdbsearch_en.cgi?stichwort=ACPI

If someone who has access could add something to SDB about my above USB card
reader problem, could help the next guy. Nick, I don't know how you made the
connection between ACPI and the card reader problem. You are a genius.

Thanks!

Roger :-)

On Sunday 23 November 2003 01:39, nick murphy wrote:
> Roger Chrisman wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Now that I have installed SuSE 9 I cannot mount my digital camera's
> > Compact Flash card via USB port. I was able to on SuSE 8.2.
> >
> >The file system on the Compact Flash card is vfat apparently, because I
> > get this on SuSE 9 when I try the mount command:
> >
> > # mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
> > mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
> >
> >The above mount command had been working on SuSE 8.2 but now that I have
> > SuSE 9 installed I am getting that, "mount: fs type vfat not supported by
> > kernel" error in SuSE 9.
> >
> >Is this REALLY a true limitation of SuSE 9?
> >
> >Or is there something else going wrong?
> >
> >How can I fix this?
> >
> >Frustrated because this was such a slick thing on SuSE 8.2 -- just plug
> > the Compact Flash card indo my system's USB port with my SimpleTech USB
> > to Compact Flash adapter. Now it doesn't work :-\
> >
> >Thanks for any tips!
> >
> >Roger
>
> Works for me on both 8.2 and 9. I have multicard reader and just plug it
> in, wait and it automounts. There have been some reports about acpi
> messing up usb in 9.0. You could try acpi=off at the boot prompt.
>
> Nick

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