On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Akkana wrote:

> Shlomo Yona writes:
> > I want to purchace a SmartMedia reader/writer
> > with USB interface, but I don't know which brand
> > to buy as I don't know what support each of the
> > products has under linux.
>
> The OmniFlash Uno series is generic usb-storage, and works great
> in linux without any extra drivers (both read and write).
> It's also small and very inexpensive.
> http://www.omniflashproducts.com/hsm.html
> (There's even a penguin on the package! :-)

   Well thanks for telling me *now*... :)
   Oh well.  Those look pretty sharp, but the sandisk one works fine for
me.  I guess I'll stick with it.

> Scott Moser writes:
> > search the archives. of this list.
> >    the sandisk readers work well.  they cost $20 for the combo smart
> > media / flash reader.  I'd go with those if you can get one, they're
> > cheap, work well, and you get a flash reader for free.
>
> Really, their combo drive can write as well as read smartmedia under
> linux?  That's good news.  The older smartmedia-only Sandisk (and Zio,
> which uses the same chip and the sddr09 driver) work well on linux in
> read-only mode, but writing in 2.4 requires a kernel patch (2.5 has
> the patch already).

   I've got 2.4.19-pre8 (i posted earlier with an incorrect version
number).  It works fine in read and write.  I hadn't tried the write
until just now.  the 09 and the 55 or something are both mentioned on
sandisk's site as not being usb storage compliant (at least I thought I
saw that).  I figured I'd give this a shot and just take it back if it
didn't work.

   I have a feeling that most devices will work with usb-storage at this
point.
   Scott




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