[maemo-developers] Finding the mmc cards

[From: Tony Maro]

On 8/29/07, Marius Vollmer <marius.vollmer at nokia.com> wrote:
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> The internal card is always mounted on /media/mmc2, and the external
> card is always mounted on /media/mmc1.


And when the Nokia n900 (just guessing) gets released, and it has a memory
stick socket or some other type of memory card, I assume we won't be able to
rely on this anymore.  But, sounds like for at least the short term (or long
term in Internet years) relying on mount and /media/mmc* is the way to go.
Assuming you don't need notifications of card insert.

You can also use the environment variables MMC_MOUNTPOINT and
> INTERNAL_MMC_MOUNTPOINT, but then you have to make sure that they are
> always set correctly in your environment.  (I don't think using
> environment variables for this kind of system information is a good
> idea.)


Agreed.  Especially with the numbers of morons like me that are likely to
screw those up ;-)

The device files are not constant like this: the internal card might
> be /dev/mmcblk0 or /dev/mmcblk1, as far as I understand.  Someone with
> better low-level knowledge please correct me.


I had thought this might be the case, especially since my /dev/mmcblk0 goes
to /media/mmc2 and /dev/mmcblk1 goes to /media/mmc1 on my device.  Seemed
kind of reversed to me.
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