On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 21:42:50 +0300
Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Bruce F Press wrote:
> 
> > William Bouterse wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> DOES ANYONE HAVE A WORKING USB READER FOR SMARTMEDIA UNDER LINUX 
> >> !!!!!?????? ( I mean like plug it in and it works!!?? )
> >>
> > 
> > I have a sandisk and it works just fine read-only.  
> 
> 
> Which one (model or USB vendor/product; class would be interesting as 
> well)? Some are suproted some not as it seems.

YES I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THIS AS WELL !!!!

The SDDR33 seem to have better luck but not the SDDR55 though 
the Sandisk website say they BOTH are supported in the 2.4x kernel


> 
> > It is detected, but 
> > I have to do a 'modprobe sd_mod' if I boot without the media in the 
> > drive. 
Okay I did that again just in case.....
> 
> See suggestion to add
> 
> above usb-storage sd_mod
> 
> to /etc/modules.conf. It may be "below" as well, does not matter in this 
> case.

okay I added 
alias usb-storage sd_mod
to /etc/modules.conf

though as you mentioned in my earlier sandisk postings 
it is NOT being acknowledged by my system as being loaded
> 
> > I have a 'storage=yes' in /etc/sysconfig/usb.

okay I went ahead and did that
> > 
> 
> 
> Should not be needed actually ... as long as it is supported variant.
> 
> 
> -andrej

So I am still getting the usual;

#mount /mnt/smartmedia   
mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device

Ah Well maybe I will eventually hear from
the sandisk folks !!!???


Thanks for the input people :)



-- 
William Bouterse
Talkeetna, Ak.

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