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05-05-2004
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$170.00
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10.0
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Description:
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From the manufacturer's website: " Unique 4-In1 breakout box that can be installed in a 3.5” or 5.25” drive bay for easy front panel access, featuring combination Compact Flash (both Type I & II) / Smart Media / IBM Micro Drive reader/writer and two (2) front USB 2.0 ports"
http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=160
This 4-in-1 was packaged with my Soyo KT-333 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard. It took some work and the persistence of 3 linux users off and on, to get it working. I had a problem early on where mounting a card would crash my X session (since I wanted to see images---and didn't want to have to leave X to get them off my CF card, that was bad!). I have 3 CF cards-- two by San Disk and the third by Lexar. It turns out that every time I put the Lexar card in, it was causing the problem!
It requires the usb-storage module, as well as vfat, fat and sd_mod. The following is the output of dmesg after I mount a Compact Flash card in the reader.
code:
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Current sd00:00: sns = 70 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
SCSI device sdb: 31361 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb:ldm_validate_partition_table(): Found an MS-DOS partition table, not a dynamic disk.
sdb1
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Keywords:
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card reader usb ports smart media compact flash
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Connection Type:
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USB
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05-05-2004, 08:13 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 42
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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $170.00 | Rating: 10
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.4.20
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Distribution:
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Slackware 9
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This card reader requires several modules to be loaded (or compiled into the kernel): vfat, fat, sd_mod and usb-storage.
The entry for the reader in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/card auto user 0 0
I have only used the Compact Flash and the USB ports---not the Smart Media reader.
Issue: Lexar cards crash X. San Disk cards don't.
The price for this is high because it came with my Soyo KT-333 Dragon Ultra Platinum motherboard. That's what I paid for the whole thing. It can be purchased separately, according to Soyo's website.
Before I installed this reader, I had to use a PCMCIA adapter and book one of the laptops to Mac just to get my images. I am _extremely_ pleased to have this working.
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