Re: smart media changing problem

Gerry Tool wrote:
> I have a Camedia USB smart media reader which Null recognizes and allows

Is that a usb device?

> [gerry@gstpc gerry]$ mount /mnt/smedia
> mount: block device /dev/sda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> [gerry@gstpc gerry]$ umount /mnt/smedia
> 
> However, if I want to remove the card after unmounting the device and
> insert another card and mount the device, I get the following error;

Any thing in dmesg or  /var/log/messages?

> [gerry@gstpc gerry]$ mount /mnt/smedia
> mount: block device /dev/sda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>        or too many mounted file systems

SmartMedia may have the partition table in different places.
If the kernel/reader don't communicate the card change, it's
looking at the old information.

If you unmount, remove, and re-insert the same card,
can you mount it a second time?


	-Thomas