How to read CF card via USB with umass on 4.7-STABLE?

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Mon Sep 15 02:38:28 PDT 2003


On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 07:46:23PM -0400, Chris Shenton wrote:
> Bernd Walter <ticso at cicely12.cicely.de> writes:
> 
> > A photo disk is most likely not ufs - it's msdosfs.
> > msdosfs is not is normaly not used on the whole device (exeptions are
> > floppies), so you want using the correct slice.
> > E.g. mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt
> 
> Yeah, I tried msdos as well (man page is wrong specifying ufs), still
> no joy.  
> 
> I was able to mount it on my 5.1 system so I'm happy now :-)
> Thanks!

mount -t msdos /dev/da1s1 /mnt
is the way to go for normal msdosfs media as used in cameras.
If it doesn't work you should give the exact error messages from
mount and kernel.

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