Re: USB card readers that work?
richard lyons wrote:
On Wednesday 19 May 2004 15:52, Walter Tautz wrote:
I would imagine almost anything would work but I'd like
a list of models people have used with debian and which
they may have also used with their digital cameras. My
intent
[...]
As far as I can see, anything does work. I have an
Olympus C220, which happens to be one that is not
> supported by gphoto etc (apparently on account of a
> coding error by Olympus IIRC), but I simply pop the
> smart-media cards into any card reader that is around
and read it, write it or whatever (In fact, I also use
> them for data transfer from country to country or from
computer to computer).
Same here.
I use the cheapest available reader, a blue blob called
> "PC-line". I recollect it cost 7 GBP. I also use one
of the same brand for SD cards. The only problem is
the need to reboot when switching between types of media
(though I am told the usb can be reset without rebooting
- I forget how and have been too lazy to look it up).
While I'm fairly sure that a large proportion of the readers
of this list already know all of what comes next, just
incase there are any newbies who are interested <G>...
The only way I know of doing it is to "mount" and "unmount"
the flash memory just like I do a cdrom.
What I did was:
su - [to get to root, of course]
cd /
mkdir cflash
cd /etc
nano /etc/fstab
Then in fstab I just put the line:
/dev/sda1 /cflash vfat
defaults,rw,user,noauto,gid=50,umask=002,exec 0 2
[all on one line, of course. *sigh* wordwrap gets you every
time.]
Note: This line DOES assume that you have sda1 available, if
you don't then use whatever sd you have available. I also
have such links for two more flash cards at sdb1 and sdc1.
Then if you don't have "usb-storage" compiled into your
kernal, do a
"sudo modprobe usb-storage"
and as long as your system is up you can just do a
mount /cflash to access your flash card.
umount /cflash to dismount your flash card and switch.
[snip]
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