How to access a PCMCIA HDD

cwwilson721 · 01-27-2006, 10:33 PM

I have an old Viper 260MB PCMCIA HDD. When I boot, in dmesg I see the drive in slot 0. My question is, how do i mount it?

What /dev should I look for it? Any answers would be appreciated

Poetics · 01-27-2006, 11:37 PM

What does dmesg report after you put it in? You should be able to find what kind of event it registered which will tell you what type of device (/dev/sda1 for example) to mount.

phase9 · 01-29-2006, 03:12 PM

Hi!

I`m using a PCMCIA card reader with my notebook. The flash cards in the card reader are named in the IDE schema (in my case /dev/hde). It seems /dev/hda to /dev/hdd are reserved for the IDE controller, so /dev/hde will be the next available device name.

cwwilson721 · 01-29-2006, 03:30 PM

I'll have to check that later. Using the only pcmcia slot for wireless to get on the net. Will let you know