Summary

This device is a PC Card adapter for Type I Compact Flash Media (not Type II). I inserted the card containing a 256M Lexar Media CF into my HP Pavilion N5295 laptop running SuSE Linux 9.1 Professional and SuSE recognized the device immediately. I've never used a PC adapter and assumed this would hook up in linux just like a usb media storage device, but it didn't. SuSE popped up a requester notifying me that it had detected a new "hard drive" called "LEXAR ATA FLASH" and asked me if I wanted to configure it. Clicking on YES brought up the Yast Expert Partitioner. Suse recognized the PC card as "/dev/hde" calling it Type "ATA FLASH" and the CF media in the card as "/dev/hde1" and type Fat32 -- so, it knows the media was formatted. All I needed to do was edit the entry for /dev/hde1 and choose a mount point on the system. I chose /media/pc_cf (and as root I created the mount point directory and chmod +rwx for all -- just in case.) When I applied the changes I was able to browse the media card with Konquerer.