Compact Flash Cards

[mark at buttery.org (Mark J. Dulcey)]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> This is really a dumb question.
> On my laptop last night, I tried to mount a CF card with a pcmcia holder. 
> However, I was unable to find the appropriate device. This was in slot 0. 
> I was in a bit of a hurry. In any case, I have done this before (possibly 
> on a different laptop, but the same release of SuSE (8.0 with a 2.4 
> kernel). I did run cardctl status and ident, and everything looked ok. 

When I did the same thing on my laptop (also SuSE 8.0), it showed up as hde. Look in /proc/ide; you should see the device there.