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Topic: pcmcia compact flash, mounting after booting

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MDG

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Posted: Oct. 30 2006,04:24

Hi
I have a compact flash card in a PCMCIA adapter. If I insert before booting, it is detected just fine, however, sound does not work. If I boot without the PCMCIA adapter sound works fine. My questions is - how do I make the PCMCIA card writable for user and still be able to use it with windows XP (to transfer files, etc)?

Thanks so much for your help!!!

MDG

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Posted: Oct. 30 2006,14:49

My guess is that your pcmcia and sound share the same irq and conflict - or something along those lines. Check if you can change them in your BIOS.

I haven't used pcmcia nor cflash cards - so I can't help you there. All I can say is you should probably use vfat/fat32, or fat16

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Posted: Oct. 30 2006,20:17

Hi MDG!

I'm not sure that I understand your question. I use a PCMCIA/CF combination that i boot with two floppys (first boot floppy and then the PCMCIA-drivers) and it works just fine the sound also. In emelfm the CF-card shows up as hde1. If you want to copy something on it just mount it in emelfm as root. In Windows XP it just shows up as a removable drive. If you could be more specific about the problem I might help you.

Have fun out there,
meo

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MDG

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Posted: Nov. 02 2006,03:03

I guess I am looking for the commands to make the compact flash readible/writable in Linux when inserting the card after booting. Right now it just shows root access.

I was wanting to be able to access music and files stored on thie compact flash from the command line.

Thanks to all for your great help!

MDG

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