lspci reports: *-pcmcia description: CardBus bridge product: Texas Instruments vendor: Texas Instruments physical id: 6 bus info: pci@08:06.0 version: 00 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pcmcia bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=yenta_cardbus resources: iomemory:d2004000-d2004fff irq:185 *-storage description: SDP vendor: SunDisk physical id: 0 version: 5/3 0.6 slot: Socket 0 resources: irq:3 *-ide description: IDE Channel 0 physical id: 1 bus info: ide@1 logical name: ide1 clock: 33MHz *-disk product: SanDisk SDCFB-16 physical id: 0 bus info: ide@1.0 logical name: /dev/hdc capabilities: packet This appears in /var/log/syslog when the adapter is inserted: kernel: [17180389.364000] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0 kernel: [17180389.364000] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 kernel: [17180389.404000] Probing IDE interface ide1... kernel: [17180389.692000] hdc: SanDisk SDCFB-16, CFA DISK drive kernel: [17180390.364000] ide1 at 0x2040-0x2047,0x204e on irq 3 kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: max request size: 128KiB kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: 31360 sectors (16 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=490/2/32 kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: cache flushes not supported kernel: [17180390.364000] hdc: hdc1 kernel: [17180390.368000] ide-cs: hdc: Vcc = 3.3, Vpp = 0.0