From norbert at akumakun.de  Mon Jul  3 04:55:43 2006
From: norbert at akumakun.de (Norbert Kaufmann)
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:55:43 +0200
Subject: Tungsten T5, drive mode, linux and sd card
Message-ID: <44A8DB8F.8080608@akumakun.de>

Hello Experts!

Excuse me, this is offtopic in a pilot-link list, but I don't know where
to ask.
I am a FreeBSD user and don't have any problems synchronising my T5 and
using the drive mode, it's a bit tricky though.
But unfortunately I have to work on an linux system, too. Could please
anybody give me a hint why I can't see the external card when using the
drive mode? I got only an entry for one 'scsi' drive, the external sd
card is simply not available.
I tried this with linux kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x without success.
Any clues?

TIA

Norbert
-- 
I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.


From dennis at bbn.com  Mon Jul  3 13:49:36 2006
From: dennis at bbn.com (Dennis Rockwell)
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:49:36 -0400
Subject: Tungsten T5, drive mode, linux and sd card
In-Reply-To: Message from Norbert Kaufmann <norbert@akumakun.de> 
	<44A8DB8F.8080608@akumakun.de> .
Message-ID: <25807.1151948976@bbn.com>

On 3 Jul, Norbert Kaufmann wrote:

> But unfortunately I have to work on an linux system, too. Could please
> anybody give me a hint why I can't see the external card when using the
> drive mode? I got only an entry for one 'scsi' drive, the external sd
> card is simply not available.

Here's the script I use with CardExportII on my TX.  It
mounts with no arguments, unmounts with any.  The filesystem
mounts as /dev/sda1.  This is on Fedora Core 4; uname -a
says

Linux xenophobe.bbn.com 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 #1 Tue Feb 7 13:37:42 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Under FC3 I could only mount it once for every reboot.
Under FC4 it works just as you might want it to.

Good luck!

Dennis Rockwell

Palm IIIe -> HandEra 330 -> TE -> TX

#! /bin/bash

# Mount the SD card from my TX

case x$1 in
x)
	sudo modprobe scsi_mod
	sudo modprobe usb-storage
	sudo modprobe vfat
	sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
	;;
*)
	sudo umount /mnt/usb
	;;
esac