I have a multi-card reader, both Compact Flash and Smart Media. Hard Drake would "recognize" it as a 1-Gig SCSI drive, but I was never able to get LM to see any SM card in it. Perhaps it would have worked with a CF card, but that's sort of moot. Anyway, I went out and bought a SanDisk Smart Media-only card reader, and I'm having even less luck. Hard Drake doesn't see it at all, except (possibly) for an entry in the "other", unknown devices section. Perhaps from previous tries, including the successful ones of just attaching my Olympus C-700 directly to the computer, I have entries under /dev for SDA, SDB, SDA1 and SDB1. If I do an ls of them, they're all blinking, because (I'm assuming) they're really links to devices that aren't there any more. When I try the modprobe as shown below (as root), no errors are returned. The mount command, though, gives me this:
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist I sympathize with everyone who complains about the hurdles we must jump just to install some new piece of software under Linux. I pick up a British magazine, Linux Format, and its DVD is loaded with the latest (more or less) stuff. When I tried to install the newer version of Mozilla, I was told that there were dependency problems, some file that I needed. Finding that in an RPM on rpm.net, I started to install that, only to find that, yes, there were more dependency problems with that one, too. I like Linux, I think it's a powerful system and fun to play around with, but I will have to admit that I really like the way similar things are handled in the Windows world. You buy a product, the CD or other installation medium has what's needed - you're (usually) not told that you have to go find some missing/newer files somewhere else. I plug in a card reader, and (again, usually) Windows recognizes it, and it works. I can live with the fact that the CD-player gives me some message about "access permission" errors on /dev/cdrom. This used to work in LM 8.0, but I'm more interested now in getting the usb card reader working. But it looks like Linux, or maybe just this distro, is similar to other systems, where things don't always work, and we just have to wait for further releases, this year or next. Bryan Tyson wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2002 18:09, you wrote: > > >>Sandisk USB CompactFlash Reader >>Does anyone have one of these working? >> > > modprobe usb-storage > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /camera (or whatever mount point you want) > > *************************************************** > Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional > KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 > This is a Microsoft-free computer > > Bryan S. Tyson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *************************************************** > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
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