On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Mike Tancsa wrote: > >I also have a similar device, which I've been messing with a bit the > >last couple of days. In your case, it isn't seeing the media, just > > the "drive". I've had to try various combinations of unplugging > > the adapter from usb, inserting the media then plugging it back in. > > It does seem to work fairly reliably if you boot with the media > > already inserted, but it doesn't seem to detect media change at > > all. > > I get around it (on my cheap reader) by always doing a > cat /dev/null > /dev/da1 > whever I change or insert new media into the reader > > That seems to work with the gear I have 99% of the time.
Hmm OK, I sort of expected fdisk da1 to fail straightaway though (it takes ~30 seconds to fail for me). I have unplugged it for now, it interacts annoyingly with SANE because that scans the SCSI bus(es) looking for scanner and each umass takes 30+ seconds to fail. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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