On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:21:20 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 27 February 2004 20:33, Littlefish Operator wrote: > > > > By the way the multi-card reader works great! > > > Did you have to do anything to set it up, Scott? In the past it has > been well-nigh impossible to get the multi-format readers working. > You are working with 9.2, I think?
Well, as the case may be that reader is currently plugged into a 9.0 box (which I'm hoping to upgrade this week). I didn't do anything particularly fancy to hook it up. Created an entry in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/cf vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0 And a /mnt/cf directory. On the KDE desktop I created a new floppy device and pointed it at device /dev/sda1 (no supermount), called it 'ImageMate' and treat the cards like floppy disks. I don't think it involved anymore than that, but I do see I've also got: scsi_hostadapter in /etc/modules and: probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi in /etc/modules/conf. I think those two entries may have been part of the deal. The card reader is a Sandisk USB Imagemate 6 in 1 card reader. I've never actually tried reading anything other than CompactFlash. I think the other card slots show up as other /dev/sd? devices. I only wish it came as an internal floppy bay mount instead of an external plug in. Never had any problems reading/writing flash cards. Just the same stupid kernel warnings when ever there's no card in it: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Additional sense indicates Medium not present sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Why, why, why keep trying to read the device when it's already apparent that there's no medium present.... Scott -- Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca)
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