David Both writes:
> I also looked into the Smart Media diskettes. You insert the Smart Media
> card into the "diskette" and insert the "diskette" into the diskette
> drive. It would have been nice but it requires "special" software that is
> of course written only for Windows.
There was a Linux driver for the diskette adaptor, but it only worked
with 2.2 kernels. The diskette adaptor is very slow, though, and I
don't miss mine at all.
> My current solution is to run Windows under VMWare which recognizes the
> device just fine. After copying the files from the camera mass storage
> device to a local shared directory, I go back to Linux and mount the
> shared directory with smbmount and copy the files to the Linux file system
> where I can work with them.
>
> I think my long term solution will be to find a Smart Media card reader
> that acts as a mass storage device but that works correctly. Does anyone
> else here have a suggestion or recommendation for such a device?
If you have a laptop, PCMCIA Smartmedia adaptors work great -- they
emulate an IDE disk and require no special drivers, and they're very fast.
I'm using one made by Antec, but I think they're all fairly equivalent.
If you don't have PCMCIA, the Zio! and SanDisk SDDR09 USB readers work
fine for reading under linux, they just can't write (so you have to use
some other method for clearing your card after uploading the photos).
...Akkana
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