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This Nikon product uses a removable USB memory card so it's as compatible as other USB Sandisk memory card readers.

I'm not familiar at all with using the "hotplug" service of Linux so I disabled it in the "Configure your computer" applet. Once I disabled hotplug and stopped the hotplug service, the directory "/mnt/removable" was automatically created. I seemed to have better luck by plugging in my memory card to the reader before plugging the memory reader to the USB cable. I issued "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable" as root as was able to navigate the memory card and retrieve my photos.

For me, using the memory reader was OK because I'm comfortable su 'ing to root, doing mounts, umounts and copying data off of the memory card readers. But for the non-technical end users, getting the images off the memory card could be quite challenging for them. My wife has trouble, and my kids can forget it. I'm sure it could be made smoother, but I never investigated deep enough to get a standard user able to mount, umount the device.

I've found that when I used KDE to browse the mounted memory card, I would get the typical "device or resource busy" when trying to umount it. To get around this, I use the command line for copying the the images off or just unplug it regardless of the OS whining. I haven't noticed any ill effects from disconnecting it without unmounting it. I'm sure the mounting/unmounting and copying can all be tweaked out so it's seamless... but for me, I just didn't care enough. The product works on Linux and I'm able to get what I need out of it.