Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-04-02 Thread Wulfy
Justin Guerin wrote: Do you have any cards to test in the other slots on the reader? I only got the reader because of the camera card. I have no others (yet). [I wrote:] The one way I can think of to check if the card is still good (and full of pictures) is to connect the camera through the

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-31 Thread Justin Guerin
Wulfy wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >>In any case, the partition contains information about how the device is >>formatted, so if you use the wrong type, you'll get an error that says >>something like "wrong fs type", not "invalid block device". >> >>Considering the block device exists, the only

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-30 Thread Wulfy
Justin Guerin wrote: In any case, the partition contains information about how the device is formatted, so if you use the wrong type, you'll get an error that says something like "wrong fs type", not "invalid block device". Considering the block device exists, the only reason I would think th

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-30 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 30 March 2006 08:01, Wulfy wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >Wulfy wrote: > >>Justin Guerin wrote: [snip] > >> > >>mount: /dev/card_sm1 is not a valid block device > >> > >>when I try to mount it. > >> > >>Any ideas where I've gone wrong? If you need any more info, just ask. > > > >What

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-30 Thread Wulfy
Justin Guerin wrote: Wulfy wrote: Justin Guerin wrote: This is what you need to do, but it failed because udev didn't create the special device node. You can either create it manually with makedev, and have to create it manually every time, or tell udev to create the individual part

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-28 Thread Justin Guerin
Wulfy wrote: > Justin Guerin wrote: > >>This is what you need to do, but it failed because udev didn't create the >>special device node. You can either create it manually with makedev, and >>have to create it manually every time, or tell udev to create the >>individual partition nodes when the d

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-28 Thread Wulfy
Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: Is the card reader connected directly to the pc or via a hub? I sometimes had problems when there was a hub (or even a longer cable) but it worked when I plugged it directly into the USB port. HTH It's connected directly to the computer. I have a short (<1m.) cab

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-28 Thread Wulfy
Justin Guerin wrote: This is what you need to do, but it failed because udev didn't create the special device node. You can either create it manually with makedev, and have to create it manually every time, or tell udev to create the individual partition nodes when the device nodes for the read

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-21 Thread John Hasler
Joachim Fahnenmüller writes: > Is the card reader connected directly to the pc or via a hub? Every time I see the subject of this thread I visualize an IBM 1622 with a USB cable hanging off it... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:29:16AM +, Wulfy wrote: > Thanks to all who answered. Much appreciated! > > (...) > > > Progress! well, some. > > I did "mkdir /media/card" so that there'd be a directory there to attach to. > > I tried each of the possibilities: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a-d] /

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-19 Thread Justin Guerin
Wulfy wrote: > Thanks to all who answered. Much appreciated! > > Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > >>[snip] > Progress! well, some. > > I did "mkdir /media/card" so that there'd be a directory there to attach > to. > > I tried each of the possibilities: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sd[a-d] /media/ca

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-19 Thread Wulfy
Thanks to all who answered. Much appreciated! Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: The driver is usb-storage and is loaded automatically as your syslog says. It creates devices /dev/sda , sdb, sdc and sdd for the different types of cards. So you should try (as root) mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/card a

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-19 Thread Neil Dugan
Duncan Anderson wrote: On Saturday, 18 March 2006 23:36, Wulfy wrote: My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. I plugged it into one

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-19 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:36:24PM +, Wulfy wrote: > My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I > have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. > So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. > > I plugged it into one of my

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-18 Thread Duncan Anderson
On Saturday, 18 March 2006 23:36, Wulfy wrote: > My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I > have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. > So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. > > I plugged it into one of my USB ports an

Re: USB Card Reader.

2006-03-18 Thread Justin Guerin
Wulfy wrote: > My camera usually links to the computer through the serial port. As I > have my modem in there, it's a major pain to get the camera connected. > So I decided to get a USB card reader to solve the problem. > > I plugged it into one of my USB ports and it's recognised: > > Relevant

Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 -> crash

2005-06-28 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I'm using debian sarge and wanted to change from the 2.4.27 kernel > to the 2.6.8 kernel. > > But under the 2.6.8 kernel my usb memory stick is not working. Not > only this - if I plug it out the whole system crashes! In case someone else has

Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 -> crash

2005-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 01:29:59AM +0200, Andreas Goesele wrote: > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What USB chipset do you have? > > Sorry, but how would I find out? Search the output of dmesg for the string "usb". (That's what I did.) -- Carl Fink

Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 -> crash

2005-06-25 Thread Andreas Goesele
Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What USB chipset do you have? Sorry, but how would I find out? > Certain types of USB access can lock my box It's more often syncing > my Palm Tungsten T3 than memory (SD) card access, but I've had a > lockup if I task-switch while writing to the card. > >

Re: usb card reader and kernel 2.6.8 -> crash

2005-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
What USB chipset do you have? Certain types of USB access can lock my box It's more often syncing my Palm Tungsten T3 than memory (SD) card access, but I've had a lockup if I task-switch while writing to the card. I have the VIA VT82x (UHC) chipset, FWIW. USB 1.1. -- Carl Fink

Re: usb card reader - no block device [Solved]

2003-10-30 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > after configuring my usb card reader on my laptop I wanted to do the > same on my desktop. But I didn't succeed. [...] > But then there come the problem: I can not find any device to > mount. So I get for instance: > > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/