On Sat February 28 2004 10:52 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Saturday 28 February 2004 08:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > OK, but, > > If you disconnect the reader entirely prior to boot, > > You get lots of warning in boot script about failed device, > > and when on desktop, you then hot plug it, the reader > > shows up in the hub nicely but when you go to mount > > it on either dektop icon, or CL, you get, > > > > mount /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device. > > > > so it's not really configured as a device to the system, > > only a usb connection in the hub, if you see what I mean. > > My reply was in reference to the USB external hard drive and > other such devices. I have a card reader on my MOBO but don't > use it. This is because I would lose some additional USB ports > to plug the device in, for one, second, my reading has convinced > me that the card readers are flaky at best, downright > dysfunctional at worst. Card readers in Windows often require > proprietary drivers to be loaded and those are probably not as > forthcoming for Linux as for Windows. Ultimately, I don't really > need any such device, I have a Multifunction HP printer that has > slots for memory cards, I can simply plug the memory into the > printer and either print the pictures or transfer them over to > the hard drive, with Linux. > > Since I don't have much experience hooking up smart card readers, > I will have to defer answers about that to someone who has done > it.
But MY USB Flash Card Reader has NEVER been unplugged from My computer. There for It is ALWAYS plugged into the same socket. IT DOES not have a power switch, there for IT is always on. There for it should not make any difference, as to what I do with the hard drive. The memory card reader should always be mounted to /mnt/memory_card. There for the External USB Hard Drive Should Always be MOUNTED to /mnt/removable. May be I should start a new thread as my USB 2.0 compliant question and this issue of where USB devices are mounted seam to be 2 different subjects. -- Ray Hogaboom
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