On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 07 July 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Saturday 07 July 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>On Friday 06 July 2007, Alan Stern wrote: > >>>On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>> So the next thing to do is find a wall wart that will add some power > >>>> either directly to it, or to the hub its plugged into? As I'm in the > >>>> middle of West Virginia, this should be fun as all we have are Staples, > >>>> Ciorcuit City & Radio Shack. I could probably build one with an lm317 > >>>> quicker than I could find on actually made for it. Sigh... > > I kept seeing a modern switchmode wall wart plugged into an extra drop cord > that I didn't know what it was supposed to be plugged into, so I chased its > output cable down just now and found it unused, and that it was a 5 volt 8 > amp supply whose plug fit the alps hub. So I guess it was the one that was > supposed to be powering that Alps 7 port usb-2.0 hub. Plugging it back in > and unplugging the card reader that was generating all the noise from > usb-storage, it spun right up, I've mounted it and doing some housekeeping on > it now. I've NDI why the card reader keeps trying to tell the system its 4 > scsi drives when it doesn't have a card plugged it.
These card readers work by registering as multiple Logical Units, one for each type of memory card. So if the reader can handle four different types of card then it shows up as four different drives. Don't ask me why they do it this way. I think it's dumb. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
