Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems
Neal accidentally sent this message to me instead of to the list...
,----[ Neil Lippman's message ]
| On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 18:23, Florian Ernst wrote:
| > Hello Michael!
| >
| > At Sunday 27 July 2003 22:50 Michael Waters wrote:
| > > I can't get this usb reader to work at all with a smartmedia
card
| > > (i don't have a compact flash card to test) although searching
on
| > > the web suggests that the sddr-75 is a standard USB Mass Storage
| > > device and there are reports that it works in linux.
| > >
| > > [...]
| > >
| > > `mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a,b] /mnt/flash/` gives:
| > > mount: /dev/sd[a,b] is not a valid block device
| > >
| > > [...]
| > >
| > > I bought the reader because I was having similar problems with
my
| > > camera. It's an Olympus D-510. I didn't use it for a while but
I
| > > had it working fine in linux last year with an earlier 2.4
| > > kernel.
| >
| > Did you try to mount a specific partition on the cam and the
reader
| > instead of the whole device, ie. 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash/'?
|
| A good point, which I missed in your original posting - you need to
| include the partition on the drive, which is (as far as I can tell)
| always partition 1 - so you need to access /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1.
| However, sg_map should show you which sd[ab] each of sg[123] maps to
| if the devices are being correctly recognized by usb-storage...so
| something still seems amiss.
|
| nl
|
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