Dazzle 6-in-1 + Mandrake 9.1

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

It shows up as device "sdb," but it does not show up in DiskDrake. When I reboot, the console says "ldm_validate_partition_table." How can I mount this device?

In Windows XP, it shows up as two different drives, one for the CompactFlash slot, and the other for the Secure Digital slot.

[linux_guru]

Make some mount points ..............

mkdir /flash
mkdir /secure

Mount the drives ............

mount -t fat /dev/sdb1 /flash
mount -t fat /dev/sdb2 /secure


You can modify /etc/fstab to include these entries.

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb makes it attempt to read from the CompactFlash part of the device, but it says "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb, or too many mounted file systems" (I've tried msdos as well). No number after "sdb" gets it to try to read from the SD part.

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

I got the CF part recognized by the following:

mkdosfs -I /dev/sdb
mount /dev/sdb dazzle/flash

I still can't get it to recognize the SD part.

[linux_guru]

Hmmmm ....

Can't speak from personal experience with your particular device, but when I plug in my digital camera, it appears as /dev/sda1 mounted on /mnt/camera.

I would have thought that you have to have a number in the device name. /dev/sdb refers to the entire device, whereas /dev/sdb1 refers to the first valid partition on the device (in disk terms).

[[A3D]Hatswitch]

The only thing I found concerning this is here. Maybe there's a driver for it somewhere....