Re: Trouble with Mounting CF Card Reader

From: Oliver F. Nandico (news_at_o-f-n.de)
Date: 10/12/03 

Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:32:06 +0000

Oliver F. Nandico wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I looked around in several support forums and googled a while, but
> didn't get a solution for my problem:
>
> - I want to mount a 6in1 Card Reader Writer (Hama 00046944)as an USB
> mass storage device
> - When I want to mount the card reader with the fstab entry:
> /dev/sda1 /media/cfread vfat defaults,user 0 0
> at the exisiting mount point /media/cfreader
> I get "/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device"
>
> I want to know, if there is any solution to this problem, or should I
> simply give up. I really appreciate any help, even if it says "don't buy
> cheap card readers".
>

I solved my problems: The missing information was to configure the SCSI
support with the option "Probe all LUNs". Then the CF Reader showd up as
sdb1 and could be mounted easily.

Hope this helps other people with similar problems.

O.F.N.