On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 08:30:01PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Does anyone know if compact flash card readers like this:
>
> http://www.adelong.com.au/Products_Dec_2001/MM/MMGEN052.htm
Probably. I bought a Verbatim CF reader ($38 at Harris Technology) and
it works fine. They do a multi-card reader too. I also have a
usbdrive which also works on Linux.
All you need is a kernel with usb mass storage and scsi (because the usb
drives appear as a scsi device) support, with the appropriate entries in
/etc/modules.conf:
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias usb-controller1 usb-ohci
alias usb-controller2 usb-ohci
alias usb-controller3 ehci-hcd
and /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash auto user,noauto,nosuid 0 0
and the hotplug tools installed and configured. I'm using RH7.3 and
all I had to do manually was add the line in /etc/fstab (and if you
have kudzu installed it will even do that automatically).
WARNING: insert your CF card into the reader *before* connecting it to
the USB port, and disconnect the reader before removing the card, or
you will corrupt the data on the card. I know, I've done it, and
although I did manage to recover most of the 100 or so photos I lost,
it wasn't easy. I now know far more about the Exif file format than I
ever wanted to know, and I had to remember all I knew about FAT16 but
had hoped never to need again.
Cheers,
John
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