Re: USB Card Reader.
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:36:24PM +0000, Wulfy wrote:
> My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I
> have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected.
> So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem.
>
> I plugged it into one of my USB ports and it's recognised:
>
> Relevant bit of syslog:
>
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: usb 3-2: new high speed USB device
> using address 5
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> Storage devices
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Vendor: SMSC Model: USB 2
> HS-CF Rev: 1.23
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
> scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Vendor: SMSC Model: USB 2
> HS-MS Rev: 1.23
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at
> scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Vendor: SMSC Model: USB 2
> HS-SM Rev: 1.23
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdc at
> scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost udev[6393]: creating device node '/dev/sda'
> Mar 18 21:25:27 localhost udev[6416]: creating device node '/dev/sdb'
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost kernel: Vendor: SMSC Model: USB 2
> HS-SD/MMC Rev: 1.23
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost kernel: Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost scsi.agent[6426]: sd_mod: loaded
> sucessfully (for disk)
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost udev[6443]: creating device node '/dev/sdc'
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdd at
> scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 5
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost udev[6467]: creating device node '/dev/sdd'
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost usb.agent[6342]: usb-storage: already loaded
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost scsi.agent[6379]: sd_mod: loaded
> sucessfully (for disk)
> Mar 18 21:25:28 localhost scsi.agent[6403]: sd_mod: loaded
> sucessfully (for disk)
> Mar 18 21:25:29 localhost scsi.agent[6452]: sd_mod: loaded
> sucessfully (for disk)
>
> wulfy@Yewdales-lodge:~$ lsusb
> Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0424:20fc Standard Microsystems Corp. 6-in-1 Card
> Reader
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> Linux Yewdales-lodge 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> I have Sarge installed.
>
> I can't figure out how to mount my camera card. I plug it in and the
> reader acknowledges it but nothing seems to work when I try and mount.
> So I googled and went to the site of the manufacturer Vivanco.
> Progress... they say it needs a driver. (Does it? Syslog says /dev/sd*
> are being created.) MAC OSX, MSWindows in various flavours... no Linux
> driver. No mention of Linux... :(
They don't care about linux, like many manufacturers. But:
The driver is usb-storage and is loaded automatically as your syslog says.
It creates devices /dev/sda , sdb, sdc and sdd for the different types of cards.
So you should try (as root)
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/card
and the same with sdb, sdc, sdd (or maybe sda1 etc.) until you have found the
right one for your type of card.
Later, you can create an appropriate entry in /etc/fstab .
> (...)
HTH
--
Joachim Fahnenmüller
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