[ale] sandisk smartmedia card via a USB reader under Fedora

Yu, Jerry Jerry.Yu at Voicecom.com
Fri Mar 4 09:55:36 EST 2005


the reader has one slot to insert card. It can read xD as well as SmartMedia cards

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# Subject: [SPAM] - Re: [ale] sandisk smartmedia card via a USB 
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# On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:03:49 -0500, Yu, Jerry 
# <Jerry.Yu at voicecom.com> wrote:
# > I had this nagging problem. the card/reader shows up as 
# sda1. I can mount it
# > and start to copy files off it. Then it will hang at random 
# place (after 1
# > or 6 photos, each 400K).  A few minutes timed out. 
# /dev/sda1 no longer
# > accessible. At the same time, the same smartmedia card 
# shows up as sdb1
# > (seen from 'dmesg') !  If I mount this new 'sdb1', it will 
# work flawless
# > from that point on. what gives?! 
# 
# Is this a multi-type USB reader?  I've read on the web about setting
# up those N-in-1 readers and the different slots all get different
# device numbers.  Maybe your system is slow to mount the slots and you
# are getting the error when it moves the slot around.
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