Linux support for CF card readers? (Dennis Dryden)
CF cards use the IDE specification and so i would imagin that they would work with any distro of linux. you can get compact flash to IDE converters, try www.cfide.co.uk (they are about £22 each with P&P) which id assume would work (as it is just a cable converter) Yours S Hammond
Anyone know if this: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/index.html?action=c2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X2... ...is supported under Linux? I recently got given a cheap digital camera but it has no connection cable's so i'm planing to use an external CompactFlash Card reader. If anyone knows of any others that work that'll be nice to know =). I'm guessing it uses the standard USB mass storage interface but you never know.
- Dennis Dryden
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On Sunday 28 December 2003 15:05, Stuart Hammond wrote:
CF cards use the IDE specification and so i would imagin that they would work with any distro of linux. you can get compact flash to IDE converters, try www.cfide.co.uk (they are about £22 each with P&P) which id assume would work (as it is just a cable converter) Yours S Hammond
Does anyone else think that the CF standard is a perfect example of Hardware standards done properly. I mean we have CF storage that behaves like an IDE drive and CF devices that are almost pin for pin compatable with PCMCIA in a smaller form factor. Reminds me of how impressed I was when I plugged my Zaurus's CF wireless card into my laptop by means of an 8 quid memory card to PCMCIA adapter from Jessops and it just worked. Yes I knew that it should have worked, but after spending too many years messing with computers I have become a bit cynical.
On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:05, Stuart Hammond wrote:
CF cards use the IDE specification and so i would imagin that they would work with any distro of linux. you can get compact flash to IDE converters, try www.cfide.co.uk (they are about 22 each with P&P) which id assume would work (as it is just a cable converter) Yours S Hammond
Oh well this little usb device cost's £6.99 so it seemed like a better idea then paying £20+. It can read a load of other card types then just compatct flash. I cant get the damed thing to work though. It's being seen by my usbdrivers(well its in usbveiw), and if i look at dmesg i can see that scsi has started playing with the device as sda but i cant mount it =(. I've tryed this to mount the card but have had no luck(as shown): icedesk:/home/dennis# mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda /mnt/usb-cardreader/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems Does anyone have nay suggestions on what to try? Thankx, Dennis Dryden
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:26:03PM +0000, Dennis Dryden wrote:
I've tryed this to mount the card but have had no luck(as shown):
icedesk:/home/dennis# mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda /mnt/usb-cardreader/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems
Does anyone have nay suggestions on what to try?
It's probably got a partition table on it. Try: mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-cardreader/ Or "fdisk -l /dev/sda" to see what partitions there are if that doesn't work. J. -- jid: noodles@jabber.earth.li The attention span of a computer is only as long as its power cord.
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:26, Dennis Dryden wrote: ...
I've tryed this to mount the card but have had no luck(as shown):
icedesk:/home/dennis# mount -t vfat -o ro /dev/sda /mnt/usb-cardreader/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems
Does anyone have nay suggestions on what to try?
I got it to work, i was missing a SCSI option in the kernel: "Probe all LUN's". With out this option scsi only saw one of the card reader slots(and not the one i wanted) but it now works fine... now i just need to remember how to get my ATI drivers to work with the new kernel or i'll have no Quake or Never Winter Nights :-(. - Dennis Dryden
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