Although it makes no claim to Linux compatibility, I am having very good results with the PNY SmartMedia reader (this is not the combined compact flash AND SM reader). It is a simple black blob of plastic with a slot for the media and a usb cable on the back. No lights, or leds or anything else. I paid $19.99US for mine at Staples. It worked out of the box with Mandrake 8.2 after creating a folder called smedia (or whatever you want) under /mnt and adding "/dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,user" (without quotes) to /etc/fstab.
Joe On Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:22:08 +0900 Chris Spackman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am headed to Osaka in a few days and am thinking of picking up a usb > smartmedia reader. At the moment, I have a Fuji FinePix 4500 camera that > works with Mandrake 8.2 just fine as /dev/sda1, but a usb reader would > be more convenient and versatile. I assume a reader would mount and the > same way in the same place - the memory card is the important thing for > determining that, right? not the gadget you use to read the card? > > A quick look through google results didn't show any major problems and > in fact turned up a few products' pages that claimed to be linux > compatible. So I am not expecting any problems (famous last words), but > does anyone have any experience with readers that they can recommend? > > yoroshiku and tia, > > -- > Chris Spackman > www.openhistory.org > > gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 > > >
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