You may need to create a disktab entry so the devices are recognised
properly. This was the case with 1 + 2Gb Jazz disks.
Graeme
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete French" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:26 PM
Subject: whilst we are oon the subject of disc formats...
> so, does anybody know the magic necessary to get an OpenStep
> machine to mount SCSI removeable discs ? I've got 6 devices
> on the bus - 3 are CD/DVD drives, and the other 3 are memory
> card devices (PCMCIA, SmartMedia, CompactFlash) that report
> themselves as SCSI removeable discs.
>
> When I boot its finds all 6 and does the "waiting for drive to become
> ready" thing for each of them in turn, but evenb if I put a car in
> then the drive never appears to eb ready. When the system is booted only
> the CD drives work. I cant even mout a card by hand.
>
> I know that CompactFlash cards are basically ATA coompatible and contain
> a FAT12 filesystem, so I would have thought a 'mount -t dos' would
> dothe trick, but it doesnt appear to work - "no such device" (or
> something like that).
>
> I knowpeople have got Zip and Jazz drives to work (which reseumably report
> themselves in a similar way). ANy clues ?
>
> -pete.
>
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