Mounting a multicard reader (FBSD)

[Jason Oakley]

Fantastic! Thanks, Scott!
That did the trick!

At 01:31 AM 20/06/2004, you wrote:
>What does 'camcontrol devlist' say?  Probably it will just list one device
>(da0) that - as you've found - corresponds with the CF slot on your card
>reader.  The other slots are probably mapped to other LUNs (Logical Unit
>Numbers) on the same SCSI device number.  The CAM framework only probes LUN
>0 by default, so you only see the first slot.  For example, when my machine
>boots, I have:
>
># camcontrol devlist
><DMI MultiFlash 3.00>              at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da4)
>
>which happens to by the SD/MMC slot on my four-slot reader.  To make the
>other slots visible I do:
>
># camcontrol rescan 2:0:1
># camcontrol rescan 2:0:2
># camcontrol rescan 2:0:3
># camcontrol devlist
><DMI MultiFlash 3.00>              at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass0,da4)
><DMI MultiFlash 3.00>              at scbus2 target 0 lun 1 (da5,pass1)
><DMI MultiFlash 3.00>              at scbus2 target 0 lun 2 (da6,pass2)
><DMI MultiFlash 3.00>              at scbus2 target 0 lun 3 (da7,pass3)
>
>where the '2' and '0' come from the 'scbus' and 'target' parts of the
>devlist output - these will probably be different for your system.  So now
>I have da{5,6,7} corresponding to the SmartMedia, CF and Memory Stick slots
>on my reader.
>
>I actually have all those 'camcontrol rescan' commands in my /etc/usbd.conf
>file, so everything is set up automatically when the reader is detected.
>You might also want to look into using the automounter to avoid having to
>mount things manually - it's pretty convenient to be able to plug in a card
>then just 'cd /flash/cf' (or whatever) to access it.  Dan Pelleg wrote a
>pretty good article about this on DaemonNews last year:
>
>http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html
>
>Hope that's some help to you,
>
>         Scott

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