I know this is going to sound like a stupid question, but you have tried it with the actual card in the reader, right? Mandrake also thinks mine is a 32MB scsi drive (because that's the size of my smart media card). But it only recognizes it with the card in. If I boot without the card in it, it gives an error on scda1. So I told it not to auto-mount. Then I can put the card in and mount it manually whenever I want to.
I'm using an Olympus D-460Z and it only has a serial connection which is just too slow to suit me. I ended up paying $19.95 at the local Staples and got a PNY Smart Media reader, figuring that I could always boot into windows to use it. But to my suprise, it works fine with LM 8.1 (at least after I changed the fstab entry to msdos instead of vfat). You might try turning off devfs (or on, if it's off) and see if that makes a difference. I believe one of it's purposes is to help with the detection of USB devices. Joe On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:34 pm, you wrote: > Nothing. It's not recognized by Harddrake. Modprobe produces no > entries under SDA or SDB. I suppose I could 'force' it, by making an > entry for SDA and then SDA1, then putting a statement into FSTAB where I > mount the SDA1 into something like /mnt/camera, but if it's not really > there - how would it work? > LM had no problem with the Olympus C-700 directly plugged into a usb > port. Harddrake found it, listed it under the drives, and I was able to > mount it with no problem. And the really funny thing is, with both of my > card readers, UsbView not only "sees" them, but even knows what their > correct names are! But Mandrake thinks the dual-slot reader was a 1-gig > scsci drive, and couldn't see the other one at all. > Apparently, some card readers are spotted by Mandrake, while others > aren't. I'm going to give Redhat 7.2 a shot tomorrow, and see if it does > any better. > > Joseph Braddock wrote: > > Out of curiousity, what's your fstab got in it for the device? > > > > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 10:42 am, you wrote: > >> I checked the Sandisk website, and this is what they have to say > >>about the reader I bought: > >> > >>Please Note: SDDR-55 is not mass storage compliant (not supported under > >>Linux). Use drivers included with device or linked below. > >> > >> > >> So, it looks like I'll have to be content with having to attach the > >>camera directly, or just stick with Windows for those times when I need > >>to use a card reader. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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