how to mount CF device in linux

[Craig Hollabaugh]

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 07:45, 丁厚永 wrote:
>
>     I have a IBM Microdrive CF device which is 1GB.
>     I have joined it with a PC Card Adapter provided by IBM and pluged
> it into a PCMCIA slot in my notebook. Under WIN XP, i can explorer
> the device. How can i find this device under linux(redhat7.3) and
> fdisk,format and create fs with it?

Did the kernel find the device during bootup, use dmesg to look at the
boot messages?

As root, use mount, like

mount -t msdos /dev/xxx /mnt

where xxx is the device the kernel found. msdos might not be correct,
replace msdos with the filesystem type you installed on the card.

Craig

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