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Re: Sandisk sddr-75 CF/SM usb reader problems



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Michael Waters wrote:
| Hi list,
|
| 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.
|

I had endless trouble setting up my SmartMedia reader.  The key problem
was...

I was putting the SmartMedia card in the wrong way up!

I spent about a day messing about with /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, mount -t
msdos, this variable, that variable, but when I got really desperate and
turned the card contact side down, it worked (with /dev/sda1, incidentally).

Just a suggestion...



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