Re: smart media changing problem

have you tried to do fdisk /dev/sda just to see what partitions are on
the card? and what there types are?

Dennis

 On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 11:46, Gerry Tool wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-18 at 15:25, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
> > 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
> 
> The same thing happened.  I mounted it, looked at the files in nautilus,
> closed nautilus, unmounted the device, pulled out the usb cable, changed
> cards, plugged the usb cable back in, and the result is:
> 
> [gerry@gstpc gerry]$ umount /mnt/smedia
> 
> This is where I did the physical changing described above.
> 
> [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
> [gerry@gstpc gerry]$
> 
> gerry
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> > > 
> 
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