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Article ID: 3693
Last update: 09-08-04
Issue:
How do I mount and access a compact flash card?
Resolution:
To access a compact flash card from Red Hat Enterprise Linux you will need a Compact Flash Card Reader Hardware device. Commonly, these devices are external devices that connect to the computer via a USB port.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux should automatically detect your connected Compact Flash Card Reader when it has a compact flash card in it and will assign it an identity as a SCSI device.

For example, if your machine has no SCSI drives, then the compact flash device will be /dev/sda. If your machine already has three SCSI devices, then it will be /dev/sdd. Any partitions on the flash card are numbered as for any connected hard disk, eg: /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc.

If your flash card has only one partition then Red Hat Enterprise Linux will create an entry in /etc/fstab automatically to mount it as /mnt/memstick. You can mount it from the GUI using Disk Management, found in the System Tools menu.

If your flash card has more than one partition you will need to mount the other partitions manually from the command line using the mount command or you can manually create entries in /etc/fstab to allow it to be mounted from the GUI using the Disk Management tool.

Following is an example of an entry in /etc/fstab to allow mounting through the GUI of the second partition on a CF card connected to a machine with no other SCSI devices. 

 
/dev/sda2      /mnt/memstick2      auto    user,rw,exec 0 0


Note: The /mnt/memstick2 directory must be created first with the mkdir command if it does not already exist on your system.


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