[SPARCbook] SPARCbook and CompactFlash Card

[bj gleason]

Hello:

I am a bit of a newbie at this (I just got a sparcbook 3gx!)...

I am having abit of a problem with the pcmcia stuff.

I have 2.5 loaded, with NCE2.  dmesg indicates that it can not find the
pcmcia device, but when I pop in the calluna CT521RM hard drive, NCE2
sees it in slot 0.

I can't figure out how to access it now...  I tried the mount line
below, but it doesn't work (no such device)...  I've tried reboot -- -r,
and everything else I can think of (tho I am a bear of very little brain
;-)

I saw in a previous message that the calluna card works.  Can someone
tell me step-by-step how to access it?  I've tried searching, and read
the faq, but without much luck.

many thanks in advance,

bj


Jan Klingel wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Last night I found out that CompactFlash cards from digital cameras work
> in my SPARCbook 3GX. You get an adapter for $9.50 (called PCMCIA type II
> adapter), plug everything into the PCMCIA slot and mount the "hard
> drive":
> 
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1d1p0:1 /mnt
> 
> This is for the upper PCMCIA slot. Now you have access to all the great
> pictures from the camera. The PCMCIA driver his hot-plugable and you
> don't need to reboot the notebook.
> 
> Hope this will help somebody.
> 
> Jan
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