[SunHELP] PC Card reader mainly works, but not fully

Brian Hechinger sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Mar 27 19:44:06 CST 2001


i've gotten the PC Card reader to work, but the problem now seems to be that i
can only mount memory cards in the lower slot, and not the upper one.

with the card in the bottom slot:

# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p0 /pcmem/pcmem0
mount: /dev/dsk/c2d0p0 is not a DOS filesystem.
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p1 /pcmem/pcmem1
# umount /pcmem/pcmem1

with the card in the top slot:

# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p0 /pcmem/pcmem0
mount: I/O error
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p1 /pcmem/pcmem1
mount: I/O error
# mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c2d0p2 /pcmem/pcmem1
mount: I/O error

the other thing to note, is that when plugged into the bottom slot when i try
to mount the other slot it just prints the not a DOS filesystem error and exits
but when the card is plugged into the top slot on all three mount commands it
causes the machine to hang briefly.  audio stops, mouse won't move, all video
output stops, but then everything pics up right where it left off after it 
fails and gives the I/O error.

prtconf reports:

            SUNW,pcmcia, instance #0
                pcs, instance #0 (driver not attached)
                pcs, instance #1 (driver not attached)

right after a reboot and:

            SUNW,pcmcia, instance #0
                pcs, instance #0 (driver not attached)
                pcs, instance #1 (driver not attached)
                disk, instance #0
                disk, instance #1

after i have slotted the card into both slots.  the disk, instance stuff never
goes away even after the card has been ejected from the system.

if anyone has any ideas i would apprieciate it tremendously.

thanks,

-brian



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