OK, If this sounds short its becuase i've spent way to much time trying to get my mind to understand what's wrong and not much time sleeping....

Help, Help,

I've got a multi card reader that will not mount. Lets say I boot so everything is clean and check /dev I find that I have /dev/sdb which is cool because I know that it's the correct path for my reader. So when I try to mount it "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memory" I get nothing. If I check /dev at this point I don't still have dev/sdb. But if I got back and try "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/memory" then I go back and check /dev I do have dev/sb1 so now I can mount my drive at this point.

I've got several partition on my harddrive and have installed slackware11 and slackware-current. Both are doing this to me so what have I missed....

Please help me out someone.

Stick a card in it (out and back in), and have a look at dmesg and "fdisk -l"

Ok, found this thread.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=413719

After reading this the "hdparm -z /dev/sdb" works and creates the sdb1 node. But that's surly should not have to be done every time I need to mount my cf-reader... I know I've missed something and I've already complied the kernel today to make sure that I've got all the scsi stuff and usb stuff included ( I built it in to not take any chances ).......

I know I can't be the only one with a camera and slackware with this problem.

davimint

Thanks syg00 for the replay,
Sorry for the "frustrated" post before this reply, yours was not posted at the time.

As you asked...
First, that is the problem, I don't get anything by checking "tail -f /var/log/messages" like I do when I use this same multicard & usb reader with my usb-memory stick... I get nothing if I "fdisk -l" other than a list of partitions. But, if I try to mount sdb then it creates the node for me so I can mount it...

I also tried hdparm -z /dev/sdb which worked also.,
According to the man page.

Then I'm ready to go...

Its just stupid, I've got to have something wrong somewhere in the kernel, but I've used two different slackware stock kernels and one that I've double checked all the scsi and usb stuff that I know from what I've googled I should have.

I haven't used Slack in (quite) a while, so I don't know what Pat has done with hotplug/udev.
I did have an issue at one point (Mepis ???) where the multicard reader itself wouldn't do anything (reasonable as I guess it just looks like a hub), but if I "popped" a card it then recognised and mounted.
I'll try and remember to do some testing later.

syg00,
I've got Gentoo, Debian, & WindowXp installed on this same box and they all mount the cf-card first try. The reason this is driving me silly is the little lady of the house has to have the cf-reader and she uses Windows for that and she has been using kde on slackware and is happy. I want Microsoft off my box once and for all. Gentoo and Debian both have gnome although I could install kde, but I like Slackware. That's her only problem is that I always have to copy the pictures for her. I was writing the udev rules when I ran into this problem last night. Maybe I'll just write a bash scrip and fix it that way unless someone else post some help.

By the way, since the new toolchain in slackware-current, using the 2.6 kernels, hotplug is gone and udev is in... I know I'm still learning so this may be a good thing for me to work on for a while and learn some more. I just wanted to get things done and get windows off my box.

davimint.