On Fri, 4 May 2007, Brian Walters wrote: > Hi Subash > > Thanks for that - I'm not in a hurry so I'd appreciate any futher details > when you have the time. > > Ubuntu picked up most of my peripherals automatically but not the reader. > > I thought about editing fstab but I'm a bit unsure of the correct syntax for > the reader. > > I have done a bit of Googling but there seems to be conflicting (and > sometimes incomprehensible) advice. Some readers get recognised on boot > up but some don't. I'm not adverse to the command line or editing > config files but I think some of the advice is written in Klingon.... > > I've got a multi-card reader (Using Centos-4, a clone of Redhat Enterprise 4). It wouldn't see anything other than the CF slot until I added the following lines to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options scsi_mod max_luns=8 Apparently, the multi-card readers look like multiple SCSI LUNs... but not many other SCSI things do... thus the default to only scan one LUN. Some parsing of 'dmesg' or /var/log/messages might be in order to fully figure it out. -Cory -- ************************************************************************* * Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA * * Electrical Engineering * * Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University * ************************************************************************* -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net