On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:21:23 +0000, Thierry MERLE wrote:

>>> Apologies for that, my newsgroup reader told me errors whereas the
>>> article was posted successfully.

>> Quite likely because you're using an email client which (sort of)
>> happens to (sort of) work with newsgroups too. Sounds like a good time
>> for an upgrade to a real newsreader.

> Right, simple and dedicated is the best

Well done...

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_.-In alt.os.linux.slackware, Ewald Pfau wrote the following -._
> ~kurt <actinouranium@earthlink.net>:
>> This would explain why the new USB flash reader I recently bought doesn't
>> work while my somewhat older one does. I guess the new one isn't
>> backwards compatible.
>
> Maybe it helps, to query the partition table by something like
>
> `fdisk -l /dev/sda`
>
> before mounting? This is, just to give the driver layers a chance, 'to see'
> the device somehow, before accessing it 'for real'.
>
> I have a flash reader here, which won't work otherwise. But this way it
> works reliably as expected.

I have to do the same thing here.
Problem is solved thus:

function fp_mntsd() {
CARDS="lyra lyra2 flash flash2 sd lyra3 lyra4 lyra5 lyra6 lyra7 lyra8"
SD_DEVICES="a b c d e f"
for f in $SD_DEVICES ; do
fdisk -l /dev/sd${f} 2>/dev/null
done
for f in $CARDS ; do
mount /mnt/${f} 2>/dev/null && echo $_ mounted
done
}

I have too many cards and too many places a device might turn up and
so this script probes everything and then mounts anything that sticks.

You are on a *nix system. Script anything you have to do more than
once. Failure to do so results in errors and time lost. Time lost is
beer lost.

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