Re: Mounting CF flash card in 2.6.25

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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
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