Fwd: Re: pcmcia flash card mounting / reading?

[Gary Aitken]

Richard P. Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 09:14:00PM -0600, Gary Aitken wrote:
> 
>>This has to be covered in the docs somewhere, but my searches there
>>and on questions, hackers, and fs turned up zip.
>>
>>Installed an old pcmcia card device,
>>plugged in a flashcard reader w/card.
>>
>>4.10
>>kernel contains
>>  device ata
>>  device card
>>  device pcic0
>>rc.conf contains
>>  pccard_enable="YES"
>>
>>I see
>>  pccard: card inserted, slot 1
>>  ...pccardd[52]: Card "SunDisk"("SDP") [5/3 0.6] [[none]]
>>  matched "SunDisk" ("/.*/") [(null)] [(null)]
>>  ata1 at port 0x240-0x247,0x24e irq 10 slot 1 on pccard1
>>  ...pccardd[52]: ata1: SunDisk (/.*/) inserted.
>>
>>So far, so good...
>>
>>Now, I thought one should be able to read these as a file system.
>>
>>If so, to what device does one mount?  I tried the ata device,
>>but get the message "Block device required"; and there are no other
>>ata entries in /dev.  Do I need to manually create these?
>>
>>If not, what's the procedure for reading?
> 
> 
> What kind of hardware?  When using a FreeBSD 4.10 laptop, my CF
> cards come up on /dev/ad8 when plugged into a CF holder and
> then into the PCMCIA slot.  I've also got a 4.10 desktop with 
> a PCMCIA add-on ATA device (ie, plugged into IDE1, slave).  It 
> comes up as /dev/ad3.  The desktop however does not support
> hot swapping pcmcia devices.

micronics M54Hi-Plus mobo, p200, 128M
buslogic bt-946c scsi ctlr           (bt driver)
(2) smc etherpower nic (dec 21041)   (de driver)
ne2000 compatible nic                (ed driver)
isa board for pcmcia; has Vadem 365 chips on it.

Made a little progress...

Discovered that because the original system had no ata devices,
the installation had generated a /boot/kernel.conf that disabled
ata devices.  Removing that line helped.

The card now comes up:

ad0: 15MB <SanDisk SDCFB-16> [490/2/32] at ata0-master BIOSPIO

However, when I try to mount the thing I get:

/#mount /dev/ad0 /pccard
mount: /dev/ad0 on /pccard: incorrect super block

What type of file system do the cards have on them?
I tried mount_msdos and that didn't work;
got "/dev/ad0: Invalid argument"

Don't know if this is related or not:

The boot probe shows the following:
...
isab0: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> at device 7.1 on pci0
atapci0: ATA channel disabled by BIOS
...

I presume this is the ata primary and secondary disk connectors
being reported as disabled, not the isa bus card slots.  I do
have the ide disks disabled in BIOS, as there are no ide drives
on the system.

Thanks for any insights,

Gary