My flash reader may not be supported. I am including some info I found while searching the web for my model # and the word linux. It turned up the info below but I have no idea what it means. Jeff Hine
On 7 Aug 2002, you wrote: > The USB Mass Storage driver will detect devices on the modprobe, but I > don't know exactly how it hooks up with the SCSI disk driver. If the > mass storage driver doesn't recognize the Vendor and Model of the USB > device, then it won't work. Do we know for sure he has a supported > flash reader? > > Linus Got a "CR-V7-UC" USB CompactFlash card reader ? Just to prove I'm not completely useless (merely "almost useless"), here's how you make one of these particular card readers work under Linux with the USB Mass-Storage driver. I picked the thing up in Singapore after buying the new camera, I've got an old 8MB card I figure I could use for portable storage or something (it's certainly not much use for pictures anymore, unfortunately). A few months later I finally sat down and decided I was going to make the damn thing work. It's got a model number of "CR-V7-UC" on it, and it shows up as a "Genesys Logic, Inc." (vendor id 0x05e3) "USB TO IDE" (product id 0x0700) device (except Linux drives it through the USB-SCSI layer instead. Confused ? Good). So here it is, in case it's useful to somebody. Apply this in the drivers/usb/ storage directory. It's from a 2.4.17 kernel. --- unusual_devs.h.distWed Jan 16 09:36:09 2002 +++ unusual_devs.hThu Jan 17 11:11:30 2002 @@ -251,6 +251,12 @@ US_FL_MODE_XLATE | US_FL_START_STOP ), #endif +UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x05e3, 0x0700, 0x0000, 0x9999, + "Genesys Logic, Inc.", + "USB TO IDE", + US_SC_SCSI, US_PR_BULK, NULL, + US_FL_FIX_INQUIRY | US_FL_MODE_XLATE), + UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x0644, 0x0000, 0x0100, 0x0100, "TEAC", "Floppy Drive", Now, when you plug in your card reader, you'll get a heap of kernel messages (especially if you've enabled "USB verbose debugging messages", which, if you're trying to make a USB device work, is a particularly good idea). If you do, say, a dmesg | grep -v usb-storage: just after plugging in the reader, you should see something like this near the end of all the output : scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: Genesys Model: USB TO IDE Rev: 0100 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sda: 125185 512-byte hdwr sectors (64 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda1 ...which will tell you that your card reader (in this case, with a 64MB card plugged into it) is available as /dev/sda1. Of course, if you have other SCSI (or emulated SCSI) hardware attached and running, you might get given a different device name - don't panic. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
