Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Steven Yap
On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 03:25, Richard Lyons wrote: [ Removable storage tale of woe elided ] Any insights, please. The removable storage devices plug in to the SCSI subsystem. The dev entries they get mapped to is determined by the order in which they are found and/or plugged into the

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 07:25, Steven Yap wrote: On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 03:25, Richard Lyons wrote: [ Removable storage tale of woe elided ] Any insights, please. The removable storage devices plug in to the SCSI subsystem. The dev entries they get mapped to is determined by the order

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote: Richard == Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, you're right: it must be the kernel drivers. I've now discovered it is worse than you described. I have no complicated filesystems on any of the media, but after mounting any

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote: Richard == Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Worse.. don't know. What happens is that when you unplug a usb storage device and plug in a different one, it gets assigned a

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-13 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 19:19, Andrew Perrin wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 06:10, Tim Timmerman wrote: Richard == Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Worse.. don't know. What happens is that when you unplug a usb storage

smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
This is puzzling me. I have used smart media cards from my olympus camera not only to read in photos, but also to transfer data. THe card reader is a cheap and simple PCline blue thing plugged into the USB. All well and good. Then I tried a disgo - but got mount: /dev/sda1 is not a

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:25:44AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: This is puzzling me. I have used smart media cards from my olympus camera not only to read in photos, but also to transfer data. THe card reader is a cheap and simple PCline blue thing plugged into the USB. All well and good.

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:37, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:25:44AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] Then I tried a disgo - but got mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device I don't know about your other devices, but Disgos show up as /dev/sda, unpartitioned;

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:53:45AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:37, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:25:44AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] Then I tried a disgo - but got mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device I don't know about

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 12 January 2004 12:03, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:53:45AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 12 January 2004 11:37, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:25:44AM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] Then I tried a disgo - but got

Re: smart media card reader problem

2004-01-12 Thread Tim Timmerman
Richard == Richard Lyons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, you're right: it must be the kernel drivers. I've now discovered it is worse than you described. I have no complicated filesystems on any of the media, but after mounting any one of them it is necessary to reboot before you can mount