Re: LNX-BBC with Compact Flash

dont format your compact flash card with ntfs. ntfs very recently can do
r/w but it's just more hassle then its worth (allways doing the equivilant
of scandisk and the like after every major write)... use a real
filesystem

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Slaughter, Dale wrote:

 SD>I'm trying LNX-BBC 2.1 and an attempting to use it with a compact flash 128M
 SD>card in a laptop .  I formatted it with Win 2000 as NTFS and copied three
 SD>software package files to it .  I booted LNX-BBC did the following, but the
 SD>device was read-only :
 SD>
 SD>
 SD>/etc/init.d/pcmcia start
 SD>
 SD>	which assigned /dev/hde
 SD>
 SD>fdisk /dev/hde and then 'p' to print partition table
 SD>
 SD>	which showed /dev/hde1 with 980 cylinders
 SD>
 SD>
 SD>cd ~
 SD>cd /mnt/discs
 SD>mkdir shared
 SD>cd /
 SD>mount -v -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hde1 /mnt/discs/shared
 SD>mount
 SD>	which showed it was mounted as ro NOT rw
 SD>
 SD>I also tried the same process above, but replaced /mnt/discs with
 SD>/mnt/rw/discs, with no change - the device was still read-only.
 SD>
 SD>
 SD>I was able to cd to the device and see the three files I had copied, and
 SD>could use mc (midnight commander) to expand the .tar files.
 SD>
 SD>Is there something I have done wrong?
 SD>
 SD>Can this work?
 SD>
 SD>
 SD>
 SD>
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