SD Card... Where to Find?

GNewbie · 05-07-2006, 09:37 PM

hi all,

i have an sd card that i just put into the computer. how do i go about mounting it and reading it?

i didn't see it show up on my desktop and i didn't see it in konquerer - although i'm probably not looking in the right place.

tia...

tw001_tw · 05-07-2006, 11:15 PM

Using a 2.6.x kernel w/ hotplug, all I do is:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/card

Making sure /mnt/card exists before typing the command (of course).

As a short cut (kinda) add this to your /etc/fstab :

/dev/sda1 /mnt/card auto noauto,users 0 0

so that users can mount it, and all you have to type is:
mount /dev/sda1

Then, if you want, you can create a link on KDE's desktop to mount
it for you.

hope I didn't give too much info.
-tw

GNewbie · 05-08-2006, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tw001_tw

Using a 2.6.x kernel w/ hotplug, all I do is:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/card

Making sure /mnt/card exists before typing the command (of course).

As a short cut (kinda) add this to your /etc/fstab :

/dev/sda1 /mnt/card auto noauto,users 0 0

so that users can mount it, and all you have to type is:
mount /dev/sda1

Then, if you want, you can create a link on KDE's desktop to mount
it for you.

hope I didn't give too much info.
-tw

this is good information. if only i had /mnt/card or something similar. my front panel light turns on, but i don't see any response in konquerer. is there any way for me to manually check for it?

how do i know if hotplug is running? when i plug in a usb, the system picks it up so i think something is checking for this sort of thing.

tia...

AwesomeMachine · 05-08-2006, 01:07 AM

When you plug some sort of flash memory into usb, if it is configured to be seen as a hard drive, you do:

dmesg | tail

Right after you plug it in, or maybe about 2 seconds after. Then you read where linux put the flash media. It will be /dev/something. Then, you do:

mkdir /mnt/camera-or-whatever-thing-it-is

This makes a regular old directory to use as a mount point. You omly need to do this once. It will be there after that. Then:

mount /dev/something /mnt/camera-or-whatever-thing-it-is

Will mount the card at /mnt/camera-or-whatever-thing-it-is. Go to that directory to look at the card contents. They work just like regular old files. If you want to make an fstab entry the files system is "msdos"