[SWLUG] unable to mount external pci drive

[Steve Hill]

On Mon, 28 May 2007, STEPHEN CONSTANTINOU wrote:

> During boot up I do see "Starting pcmcia OK".
>
> I have an external cdrom that connects to the laptop in this manner. 
> Before I connect this device I have the following entries

First of all, it's important to know if it's a PCMCIA device or a CardBus 
device - whilest they plug into the same slot, they are handled quite 
differently.  AFAIK CardBus devices don't require any "card services" 
software and just appear to be hot-pluggable PCI devices.

> After I insert the cdrom I hear a little click from the external cdrom 
> and the cd inside does rotate, but no new icon appears in devices for me 
> to double click.
>
> However, after insertion fdisk reveals the same information.  I am not 
> sure what to do now.

Fdisk isn't going to know much about CD ROM devices since CDs have no 
partition table.

Your distribution may try to automount the device - in which case, try 
typing "mount" and see if it shows up.  Otherwise you will have to mount 
it yourself with something like "mount /dev/hdc /mnt".

Another good place to look is the kernel message buffer - type "dmesg" and 
look for any relevant messages.

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