Thanks! I can deal with not writing. And being able to at least read from a device like this means I don't have to deal with the vagaries of other camera or devices that may or may not work.
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Akkana wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:46:51 -0800 > From: Akkana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Linux-usb-users] Olympus D-100 digital camera and > SmartMedia card > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- David Both [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
