[SPARCbook] PCMCIA problems

scott sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Fri Sep 14 04:40:37 CDT 2001


> Did you vreate the device files fpr the disk ? They should be /dev/dsk/c1d0s?. If they don't exist try /usr/sbin/disks with the card plugged in. I never got it formatted on my 3GX so I
> simply took it to some Wintel Laptop, formatted it and then I was able to mount it from /dev/dsk/c1d0s2:c
> ( I guess the missing /dev in you path  is accidential ... )
>
> hope that helps ( it worked for me... )
> Michael

Yeah, all of the devices already existed.  If they don't exist, the error
is a "file or device not found", or something like that, and now it's just
saying "I/O error."...

> Hi there,
>
> >> or, if PC file system on drive:
> >
> >> mount -F pcfs /dsk/c1d0s2:c /pcfs
> >
> >If I try that, (or /dev/dsk/c1d0s2:c, more appropriately), all it gives me
> >is "mount: I/O Error".  hmm.
>




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