how do I detect a flash memory PCMCIA card?

[alijani]

I have a pcmci adapter for compact flash memory. anyone know how can i have the system detect it and mount it without rebooting?

[mrBen]

Distro?

You should have cardctl and cardmgr installed as default if you went for a laptop install, in which case you should hear a beep when the card is inserted and you'll get a message in dmesg. From there you should just be able to mount it as a normal drive, IIRC. You could add an entry to /etc/fstab and then just do mount /flash or something.

[alijani]

I am using Red Hat 8.0 but i dont think i did a laptop version of install.

I do have a wireless pcmcia network adapter that works fine.

What should the entry in fstab look like?

[alijani]

I got it to work.

i looked at the messege log and noticed it logged an hdc1 device when i interetd the card. So i created a flash directory and then used

# mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/flash/


thanks for the tip.