Probably wrong place to ask

Probably wrong place to ask

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings all;

I have a card reader plugged into a usb port.  I recognizes a 512meg pny 
cf card just fine, but wwhen I plug in a 256meg Lexar cf, the led comes 
on, but there is no reaction from linux. /dev/sda is not created, 
nothing.

Is this a kernel config problem, or is this particular cf known to be a 
bad bird?

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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Re: Probably wrong place to ask

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I have a card reader plugged into a usb port.  I recognizes a 512meg pny 
> cf card just fine, but wwhen I plug in a 256meg Lexar cf, the led comes 
> on, but there is no reaction from linux. /dev/sda is not created, 
> nothing.
> 
> Is this a kernel config problem, or is this particular cf known to be a 
> bad bird?
> 
I do that with CF and memory stick, what kernel, distribution, etc? I 
would suspect something in hotplug not noticing.

I presume you have tried this from cold boot, so any issues with 
unplugging and plugging another flash are removed.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
   CTO TMR Associates, Inc
   Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

Re: Probably wrong place to ask

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 19 January 2007 16:22, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> I have a card reader plugged into a usb port.  I recognizes a 512meg
>> pny cf card just fine, but wwhen I plug in a 256meg Lexar cf, the led
>> comes on, but there is no reaction from linux. /dev/sda is not
>> created, nothing.
>>
>> Is this a kernel config problem, or is this particular cf known to be
>> a bad bird?
>
>I do that with CF and memory stick, what kernel, distribution, etc? I
>would suspect something in hotplug not noticing.
>
>I presume you have tried this from cold boot, so any issues with
>unplugging and plugging another flash are removed.

No I didn't try that.  See the other ignore me message for the answer.

Thanks Bill.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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Re: Probably wrong place to ask

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 19 January 2007 14:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Greetings all;
>
>I have a card reader plugged into a usb port.  I recognizes a 512meg pny
>cf card just fine, but wwhen I plug in a 256meg Lexar cf, the led comes
>on, but there is no reaction from linux. /dev/sda is not created,
>nothing.
>
>Is this a kernel config problem, or is this particular cf known to be a
>bad bird?

Ignore me, I opened the second one I'd bought at the same time and it 
worked as expected.  Bad card in the blisterpack.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.