On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:12, Graham wrote:
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 13:24, Brett Parker wrote:
The USB card reader should appear as a normal SCSI block device, throw the card in and just use it like it was a normal hard drive. If it's the only SCSI/USB Mass Storage device it should appear as /dev/sda, with /dev/sda1 being the one and only partition (usually). If you've got the right utilities installed you should be able to do a mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 and all should be well.
Hope that helps.
When you say "appear as", what evidence should there be? All I have is a green LED on the dongle. Doing mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1 gives "No such device or address" with any CF card. Any other useful commands?
The dongle is labelled jumpSHOT - "Works only with USB Enabled CompactFlash". None of my CF cards say anything about being USB enabled. Could that be the problem? Do I need a smarter dongle?
-- GT
I have a 6 in 1 card reader thing and it may be under another device node(?) say /dev/sdb or /dev/dsc. Check dmesg to find out more. Also kernel versions might come into it i think i remember one of the 2.4.x kernels(and below) having problems with my card reader. Also some kernel opption like "probe all luns" might be needed with multi cardreaders.
Dennis