um ....... i would like to get my USB card reader to work ....... usually i am good with giving info about stuff, but I scoured the /proc in search of a scsi device and i guess i just dont know what i am looking for.

however, i did notice it pop up in a cdrecord --scanbus search, of all things

scsibus2:
2,0,0 200) 'USB2.0 ' 'CardReader CF RW' '0.0>' Removable Disk
2,1,0 201) *
2,2,0 202) *
2,3,0 203) *
2,4,0 204) *
2,5,0 205) *
2,6,0 206) *
2,7,0 207) *

so, how do I make this thing readable ?? I am running FC1 with a 2.6.3 kernel ( the 2.6.5 does not work with my SATA hard drive for some reason).

How are you mounting the card?

I assume the card is formatted with a vfat file system so you will need to add a umask=000 option for read / write.

i have no idea how to mount the card .... that is what I want to find out.

Assuming you do not have any other SCSI or other USB storage devices the ID will be /dev/sda. Assuming vfat partition:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/<some_mount_point>

Use the mkdir command to create a directory for mounting.

unfortunately, i have a SATA drive as /dev/sda and a IDE cd burner being emulated on sdb i believe .... btw, this is a 6 in 1 card reader, and in Windoze it shows up as multiple hard drives.

The CD burner should be scd0. I'm not familar with a 6 in 1 reader. If it shows up as multiple devices in linux then the first should be /dev/sdb.

i think you are right ..... i ls -l the /dev/cdrom device, and it points to /dev/hdd .... i thought it was emulating ....... so i stick the SD card in and try to mount the sucker, but i get this:

# mount /dev/sdb /mnt/sd -t vfat
mount: No medium found

is there something i need to edit in grub.conf or what not maybe? I am using a 2.6.3 kerenel at the moment.

The slot you inserted card in is not sdb. Look at the output of dmesg. That might give a clue on which device it should be.

i couldnt find anything else relevant .... i tried mounting sg1, and it said it wasnt a block device
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drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 23, pci mem 42957000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 2
usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using address 3
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: USB2.0 Model: CardReader CF RW Rev: 0.0>
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal
Adding 2048276k swap on /dev/sda4. Priority:-1 extents:1
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
microcode: error! Bad data in microcode data file
microcode: Error in the microcode data
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0

i have the same problem but i think the CF is on sde