Need help to enable PCMCIA automount support

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 07:49:07PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:

> Automatic handling of USB and FireWire devices should now reasonably
> work on many systems (please bug me if it does not work!). PCMCIA is
> not yet supported, however.
> 
> The reason is that it is very difficult to tell apart locally fixed
> disks and PCMCIA removable disks. But kernel 2.6.8 brought an
> interesting new feature which could help to support PCMCIA hotplug
> devices easily.
> 
> If you have a PCMCIA removable drive and already run kernel 2.6.8+,
> can you please tell me whether
> 
>   /sys/block/<device>/removable
> 
> contains 1? <device> is the drive's device name without the partition
> number, e. g. 'sda' for /dev/sda1.

Your new udev+hal work perfectly for me with my USB flash reader.  Thanks!


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 - mdz