smatcard detected but not mounted

haitiano · 11-26-2008, 04:48 AM

I have a 5-1 built-in card reader. All required modules are loaded and the system send a message (dmesg) when I insert or remove a memory card into that Texas Instrument card reader. My question is, how do I mount the memory card once input into the reader? Also, is it possible to auto the mounting/umounting process just like for a USB stick or CD/DVD? My laptop is an Acer Extensa and I am using Mandriva 2009.
Thanks

newtovanilla · 11-27-2008, 03:23 PM

You need to find out what the device is called in your Linux. On OpenSuse, it shows USB devices automagically, and a window pops up to show that you can that get files and write files. What Linux are you using?

haitiano · 11-28-2008, 03:14 PM

I am using Mandriva 2009. No popup shows up. The only way I know the system detects when I insert/remove a card from the slot is with "dmesg" which says "tifm0 : demand removing card from socket 0:0" when I remove a memcard and "tifm_core: SmartMedia/xD card detected in socket 0:0" when I insert a memcard. The memcard is only 128MB.

How do I mount this?

newtovanilla · 11-29-2008, 01:00 PM

You need to find out what the device is called in Mandriva. Then you can mount it. I found the same problem! Without the device name, I could not mount anything! Makes it so frustrating for Linux Newbie like me. As if mom and dad said that I could not go out and play with my Penguin in public...

Try > ls /dev
and see if you can find it? Or, try to search Mandriva help? Once you find device name, you can mount it with "mount" command. Try "man mount".

haitiano · 11-30-2008, 09:16 PM

I am having a hard time finding the proper device. Let's pretend I did find it, what type should I used to mount it?

hucphin · 04-14-2009, 02:07 AM

If you do find the correct device you can mount it using the mount command.

If your device you found is in /dev/usb0, and you wanted to mount it to the directory of /home/me/memoryStick, then you would type it in like this:

mount /dev/usb0 /home/me/memoryStick

If you get a command that says that the mount succeeded, then browse your /home/me/memoryStick directory, and your files will be mounted to this directory.