Re: Help! Compaq 2Gig pcmcia drive problems - /dev/hda1 not found ..

From: Robert Percival <robert.percival.a.t.riversoft.com>
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 08:19:13 EDT

Sorry - pls ignore this post - it was a dodgy psu which meant the disk
hadn't unmounted gracefully .

thanks again

~r

Robert Percival wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've been using a 2gig toshiba pcmcia drive successfully with both my
> iPaq (familiar 0.4) and my laptop (redhat 7.1).
>
>
> Under familiar I use:
>
> mount /dev/hda1 /flash -tvfat
>
> /did/ work, but something seems to have broken somewhere - I now get
>
> mount: /dev/hda1: unknown device
>
> whenever I try to mount it .. if I try on my laptop I get
>
> ==
> Aug 13 12:54:50 riversoft cardmgr[492]: initializing socket 0
> Aug 13 12:54:50 riversoft cardmgr[492]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
> Aug 13 12:54:50 riversoft kernel: ide-cs: RequestIRQ: Resource in use
> Aug 13 12:54:51 riversoft cardmgr[492]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
>
> Resource temporarily unavailable
> ===
>
>
> in /var/log/messages
>
>
> The problem seemed to occur between umounting it on my ipaq and mounting
> it on the laptop .. has anyone seen this before? Pls tell me this is
> fixable :-)
>
> Thanks
>
>
> ~robp
>
>
>
>
>
>

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