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I searched on 'mount pcmcia cdrom' and was advised to

cat /proc/partitions

This should give you a list of partitions.

pcmcia cdroms can be hda hdb hdc hdd sda - did you try all those?
To make more devices, use mknod.
mknod /dev/hde b 33 0
mknod /dev/hdf b 33 64
mknod /dev/hdg b 34 0
mknod /dev/hdh b 34 64

Do a web search on 'mknod /dev/hdX' for hdX.

My Toshiba 100MHz laptop has hda (hard disk) and hdc (cd-rom drive), one 
on each of two controllers.  hda/hdb = first controller, hdc/hdd = second 
controller.  Some laptops have scsi hard drives or cdrom drives (sda, 
sdb....). A pcmcia compact flash adaptor is /dev/hde1 on a laptop with 
onboard cdrom drive (third controller).  I predict your pcmcia cdrom drive 
will be hdc (if it has only one ide controller) or hde.  It might be sda.
Does cardmgr list any devices being found?

USB flash drives are usually found as /dev/sda1, sdb1, etc.
Zip drives are /dev/sda4 etc.
Sindi Keesan

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Another little query. I have a CDROM drive that plugs into the
> PCMCIA slot. I think Ive managed to work out which modules it
> needs by cribbing from another machine. The drive lights up and
> looks happy after the card manager finishes. However AFAICS
> there isnt a mount point. I think it needs /dev/hdg and BL doesnt
Why do you think this, because of the other machine using it?

> have that. I have to confess, I dont understand the nature of the
> files in /dev. I know they refer to devices but how they are
> constructed, I havnt a clue. I see theres a "MAKEDEVS" in /dev,
> which is a link to something in Busybox, but theres no "man makedevs"
> and the --help doesnt give much away. Can I make the missing /dev/hdg
> with this?

Look at Wikipedia 'device file system'.
I think makedevs is some script that uses mknod to make devices.
Hundreds of them.

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