FemmeFatale wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >>Two problems, possibly related: >> >>1) In /dev there is an entry scanner@, which is flashing red. What >>does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan >>FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as >>far as I have got with it. >> >>2) Problem 1 came to light when I was trying to sort out the problem of >>my cardreader (compact flash and smartmedia). Following the advice to a >>previous question, I typed >> >>modprobe usb-storage then >>mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader >> >>This crashed spectacularly, needing a forced fsck to get it going again. >> It occurred to me that sda1 may be the filmscanner, so I tried to look >>at the directories in a shell. >> >>Under /dev/usb there is only lp0 - my printer, presumably. >> >>Under /dev/scsi there are 3 entries, host0, host1, host2. Each of these >>shows subdirectories bus0/targetx/lun0 (lun0 in every case). Host0 >>shows 'generic', host1 shows 'cd generic' and host2 shows 'disc generic'. >> >>Can someone please explain to me what is happening, and how I can check >>whether the cardreader is being recognised without risking another >>serious crash. >> >>TIA >> >>Anne >> >> > > anne, if you want i'll put up a full set of docs on USB card readers & > USB-related stuff on my ftp for you. > > perhaps that will help? >
I'm sure it would. Please make sure that you have idiot-proof instructions here on the list :-) Anne
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