please help me mount my PCMCIA CF card reader

[cstump]

Hello, hello

When I insert a CF card into my reader, I get a log message telling me that module ide-cs cannot be found. Although I compiled USB mass storage directly into my 2.6.8 kernel, apparently this is not enough to get the card recognized. Which kernel option do I need to select in order to make the ide-cs module? Are there other modules I must make to get this working?

Also, once I get the card recognized upon insertion, how can I find out which disk Linux is calling it? In other words, how do I find out if its /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, etc? Right now in /dev I have hda (my hard drive) and hdb (don't know what that is).

Thanks for any input

[bk0]

You need to enable PCMCIA IDE device support in the kernel (compile as module). This has nothing to do with USB.

When you plug in the card the new IDE device node will be created. On my machine it shows up as /dev/hde. CF cards only have one partition, formatted in VFAT, so make sure you have MSDOS/FAT kernel support.

[cstump]

thanks for the reply!

I have PCMCIA/CardBus support compiled into the kernel. I don't see an kernel options specifying "PCMCIA IDE device support." Is there a specific option like that? If so, where is it in menuconfig? I am successfuly using a PCMCIA wifi card, so my PCMCIA support does work. I mentioned the USB stuff because everything I scrounged up in searches on this issue mentioned ide-cs coming with usb mass storage...I guess I'm off on that one. Does "PCMCIA IDE device support" provide ide-cs?

Thanks again.

[bk0]

The option in kernel config is called "PCMCIA IDE support", or BLK_DEV_IDECS and it compiles to the ide-cs module.

With 2.6.8, it's here:

Device Drivers ->
ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ->
Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL support ->
PCMCIA IDE support

It's only visible if PCMCIA support is also enabled.