file system type of a memory stick?

[N11]

Trying to mount a pcmcia card reader for a digital camera memory stick and I'm not familiar with the file system type it would be utilizing. Does anyone know?

 

[Nothinman]

I would guess vfat.

 

[N11]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I would guess vfat.

Doesn't seem to like that. I read briefly through some docs that said you could forcefully mount it as scsi but that's going to require kernel fiddling.

 

[Nothinman]

SCSI isn't a filesystem type...

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
I would guess vfat.

I think he's right. I know "smart media" and flash cards are vfat, I would assume that memory sticks are the same...

-Spy

 

[N11]

I didn't say it was a file system type, the docs i'm referencing describe forcing the device to be recognized as an emulated scsi device. I cannot do that with my current kernel.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: N11
I didn't say it was a file system type, the docs i'm referencing describe forcing the device to be recognized as an emulated scsi device. I cannot do that with my current kernel.

do any of the linux kernels support this?

 

[Nothinman]

I didn't say it was a file system type, the docs i'm referencing describe forcing the device to be recognized as an emulated scsi device. I cannot do that with my current kernel.

AFAIK all non-IDE storage (mainly usb) is done through SCSI emulation.

 

[spyordie007]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

AFAIK all non-IDE storage (mainly usb) is done through SCSI emulation.

That's interesting, I did not know that.

I've been playing around with this windoze thing for too long... 😀

-Spy

 

[Nothinman]

That's interesting, I did not know that.

I've been playing around with this windoze thing for too long...

I believe that's what the Windows ASPI layer does for IDE drives, it just doesn't tell you it's doing it.

The SCSI layer became the generic I/O layer because most devices (USB storage, ATAPI, etc) understand some subset of the SCSI command set for their I/O and it just made sense to do the drivers like that. But in Linux that's all being changed in 2.5, the block I/O layer is being redone, the IDE layer is being rewritten and the SCSI layer is getting some internals reworked. So when 2.6 is finally released everything I just said will be a lie =)

 

[spyordie007]

not a lie, just obsolete...