Alan, thank you for your reply, I am not quite clear with a couple of things though, please see below: On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> which tells me that the card is being recognized. However, there is no >> appropriate device get created in the /dev directory. Examining > > The /dev creation is up to your initrd. > but I don't have initrd, so I need the kernel to create /dev/<drive>. It does create other devices, right? >> What needs to be done to get the device created and mapped to a >> generic CF card? > > You need to ensure you have SCSI_DISK support included (as CF is a disk) > and you need your initrd either to create device nodes, or to prepack > them. > I don't see SCSI_DISK as a config option, can you please elaborate on this? TIA, /vb -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html