Re: USB and PCMCIA card readers
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:45, Piers Kittel wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and
> an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to
> get those to work on my linux laptop?
I don't know about the PCMCIA reader.
For the USB reader, if you are using module support, you need:
usbcore
usb-storage
sd-mod
scsi-mod
and the usb chipset driver for your system - mine uses usb-uhci.
If you modconf the usb-storage driver, you'll pull in the rest
automagically.
The memory devices are treated as scsi devices, and you mount them with:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /<whatever_mountpoint_you_create>
My FujiFinepix camera (SmartMedia) directly mounts this way, and my
6-in-1 card reader as well. Sony Memory Sticks are formatted with a
broken filesystem, so the system refuses to mount them, and Sony's
Windows driver is written to ignore this (thanks for the proprietary
lock-up, Sony).
The memory cards I've used so far are formatted with the FAT or VFAT
system.
I don't know if your kernel has these options compiled in, or compiled
as options, or not compiled at all. But you can find out.
Cheers,
Bret
--
bwaldow at alum.mit.edu
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