Thanks Jim

When I do ls -l /dev/hdc0 is comes up:

    -rw-r--r--    1 root     root    5242880 Feb 23 15:37 /dev/hdc0

So it looks like you're correct in that it's creating a file. All the other
hdc* come up:

   brw-rw----     1   root     disk   22, 0, Feb 13 11:14 /dev/hdc
...etc

The strange thing is I've looked through /var/log/messages and it tells me:

   kernel: hdc: LEXAR ATA FLASH, CFA DISK drive

I've no idea whether the CD-IDE adapter is on the primary or secondary bus -
I've just plugged it into a spare IDE port which is daisychained to the cd
drive.

Doing a hdparm -i /dev/hdc    says no such device or address

Same but for hdc0 says:    HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for
device

Many thanks for all of your help.


Paul.

> /dev/hdc0 isn't a normal device name for a hard disk block device under
> linux.  Most likely, you're creating a normal file /dev/hdc0 that
> contains the contents.  What does 'ls -l /dev/hdc0' show?
>
> The error message about no such device means there is no hardware behind
> the driver for hdc (ie, nothing at secondary bus, master position).
>
> Is your CF-IDE adapter on the primary or secondary bus, master or slave?
> The first thing you have to do is make sure the CF card is being seen by
> your linux machine before you can write to it.
>
> Try using hdparm -i on the devices /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, and
> /dev/hdd and look for the drive information that matches your CF.  Then
> use that device name for your dd command.  You can also do
> 'dmesg | grep hd' and look for your CF media in that output.  If you
> don't find it this way, it isn't being recognized.
>
> You won't need to blank the media, as dd does a direct write to the
> media.
>
> hope this helps,
> jim
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