IBM Microdrive (PCMCIA hard drive) on a Powerbook G4?

[Fred Laxton]

I've installed YDL 2.2 on my 2001 Powerbook G4, and it works great,
except for:

* built-in modem
* My 1 GB IBM Microdrive (compact flash form factor Hard drive) in a
PCMCIA adapter is not recognized. It works fine in OS 9, OS X and on
Intel-based Linux notebooks.  Intel (Mandrake) Linux mounts it as a
Windows (95) vfat partition.

I can live without the modem (Airport works great and I have a wireless
lan), but I'd really like to get the Microdrive working.

I modified /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and now can see the Microdrive as a
pcmcia ATA hard drive in KDE / information / pcmcia.

Question: how do I mount this device?  I know to mount it as type vfat
(-t vfat), but I can't figure out the device address.  /dev/hdbx and so
on doesn't work.

Does anyone else have a PCMCIA hard drive working?  If so, could you
post your /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia, /etc/pcmcia/config,
/etc/pcmcia/config.opts, /etc/fstab and anything else that I'm missing?

TIA

Fred

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