On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Paul wrote: > It was Tue, 31 Jul 2001 05:03:21 +0000 (GMT) when Len Lawrence wrote: > > >FlashPath devices can handle SmartMedia cards up to 128 Mb. Extensive tests > >conducted by Linuxcare show that the device operates very effectively on > >/dev/fd0 although the transfer rates are very low, apparently. > > > >Will report back if I can get one, and get it working. > > Very interesting! I am about to buy a digital camera (Olympus) from a friend, > which has a floppy adapter thing also. Perhaps that would work too then :) > > Paul Managed to get the SmartDisk FlashPath adapter for SmartMedia. Neat. However, there was a bit of a problem getting the Linux driver from the www.smartdisk.com site. The driver page was inaccessible, and a message to the Webmaster revealed that the driver is no longer supported, so the link to the download page was an oversight. Also included in the kind response were three attachments; the driver itself, and PDF and HTML documentation. SmartDisk can no longer spare the effort to keep the driver up to date - it is only expected to work on 2.2 systems. They specifically state that it will not run under kernel versions 2.1 or 2.3. It works for me, albeit rather slowly (20 seconds for the transfer of an 800K image file). If it works under 2.4 kernels maybe somebody could post a note about it? -- Len Lawrence @ The Thistle Foundation
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