Help accessing compact flash memory card?

[Jeff]

I just wanted to follow up to the list with what turned out to be the 
problem, should anyone else run into this.

It turns out that the /etc/pcmcia/config file that had gotten installed 
at some point was the real cause of the problem. Fortunately, I had an 
older version of that file that once restored allowed the system to 
immediately recognize my  CF memory card.

Specifically, config 1.189 2001/12/20 13:50:57 (David Hinds) works great 
for me, while config 1.249 2004/07/16 16:38:24 (David Hinds) proved 
problematic.

Regards,

- Jeff

Jeff wrote:
> 
> Pavel Roskin wrote:
>> Then your card is not a "bare" memory card, because there was no
>> memory_cs for 2.6.12, so cardmgr was loading some other module, most
>> likely ide-cs.
> 
> Hmmm, I don't recall which module was loading :(
> 
>> Indeed, you have a usual IDE card that should be supported by ide-cs,
>> but the card CIS became unavailable after the kernel upgrade.
> 
> I've tried loading ide-cs as a module, but that seemingly has had no 
> effect.
> 
> Actually, I just figured that if ide-cs is loaded, then the card is not 
> inserted into the /sys/bus/pcmcia/device/ tree. Further, dmesg reports 
> only one line when the card is inserted:
> pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
> 
> instead of two lines when ide-cs is not loaded:
> pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
> pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
> 
> Hopefully that means something.
> 
>> OK, then we need to find out why CIS is not available.
> 
> Sounds good. Can you explain more about the card CIS? What do I need to 
> look at/for?
> 
>> It may be interesting to see the messages about the PCMCIA socket.  The
>> list of the loaded modules could be useful.  Are PCMCIA drivers compiled
>> as modules?
> 
> I had previously been using modules but I've now compiled all pcmcia 
> drivers into the kernel. I'm using the yenta driver, which is the driver 
> I was using when it last worked.
> 
> Here's what dmesg says about anything pcmcia|yenta related:
> 
> Generic platform RAM MTD, (c) 2004 Simtec Electronics
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, 
> low) -> IRQ 10
> Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:01:05.0 [10f7:8338]
> Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0818, PCI irq 10
> Socket status: 30000810
> pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x3000 - 0x3fff
> cs: IO port probe 0x3000-0x3fff: clean.
> pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xe0200000 - 0xe02fffff
> pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x31ffffff
> pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
> cs: memory probe 0xe0200000-0xe02fffff: excluding 0xe0200000-0xe023ffff
> pcmcia: Detected deprecated PCMCIA ioctl usage.
> pcmcia: This interface will soon be removed from the kernel; please 
> expect breakage unless you upgrade to new tools.
> pcmcia: see 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/pcmcia.html for
> details.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
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