supermount problem

[AugustineF]

hi all,
I have got supermount and hotplug to work with 2.6.4, but It still has some oddities which I can't overcome.

1) For my Lexar firewire compact flash card reader, I have set up correct suprmount entry in /etc/fstab.
When I have a card present in the card-reader during boot time, the card is mounted automatically. After that every time I remove or insert a new card, it is unmounted/mounted correctly.
But this only happens if I had the card in during the boot time. If there was no card present in the card reader during booting, then when I put in a card after booting, It is not auto mounted.
Not only that, I can't even manually mount the card , using the mount command.
Even when I run mount as root, I get permission denied .

Any ideas why this is happening ? This some times happens to CDs too, but not always.

[diastelo]

What module does your card reader use? When you try to mount it manually (not at boot time), are all the modules loaded, such as usb-storage and scsi disk emulation?
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[AugustineF]

It is a firewire (iee1394) card reader not a usb card.

I have cojmpiled all the necessary ieee1394 support in the kernel itself. The card reader works perfectly when the compact flash card is present in the reader at boot time.
What I have noticed is , when the card is present at boot time a device /dev/sda1 is automatically created by udev, but when I insert the card after booting (and provided the card was not inserted during boot time) then the /dev/sda1 device is not created.
I am using udev , and no devfs.

[diastelo]

What rule are you using in udev.rules to create the device? Is a different device created instead, such as /dev/sdb1?
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[pjp]

Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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