From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: Mounting CF flash card in 2.6.25 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:19:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20080603171923.7aaf87b5@core> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:52124 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751925AbYFCQe1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:34:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: vb Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org > scsi0 : pata_platform > ata1: PATA max PIO6 mmio cmd 0xfc000000 ctl 0xfc00020c irq 20 > ata1.00: CFA: CF 512MB, 06/07/29, max PIO4 > ata1.00: 1028160 sectors, multi 0: LBA > ata1.00: configured for PIO > ata1.00: configured for PIO > ata1: EH complete > scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA CF 512MB 06/0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 > > > which tells me that the card is being recognized. However, there is no > appropriate device get created in the /dev directory. Examining The /dev creation is up to your initrd. > impression that the one in pata_of_platform is supposed to do for a > generic CF card. In your case it seems to be correct. > What needs to be done to get the device created and mapped to a > generic CF card? You need to ensure you have SCSI_DISK support included (as CF is a disk) and you need your initrd either to create device nodes, or to prepack them.