Re: smart media changing problem

What if you unplug the reader after unmounting and plug it back in again
with the new card in?  i.e reregister the device  with the new card in
place.

Dennis

On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 03:31, Gerry Tool wrote:
> I have a Camedia USB smart media reader which Null recognizes and allows
> me to mount as /mnt/smedia with an fstab entry as follows.
> 
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/smedia     vfat    noauto,user 0 0
> 
> If I have a smart media card in the reader at boot, I can manually
> mount/unmount it just fine and read the data on the card.
> 
> [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;
> 
> [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
> 
> There must be some way to use multiple smart media cards without
> rebooting.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
> 
> gerry
> 
> 
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