6 in 1 internal card reader

i have a 6 in 1 internal usb 2.0 card reader, and upon boot, my stem finds the device fine, and it is also listed on /proc/bus/usb/devices as 1 device, and shows up with sg3 utils as 1 device, but when i try to mount it i get mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
i am assuming that it should be showing up as 4 seperate devices for the 4 seperate slots, but i am not positive on that. also i have read stuff about multiple luns, but that requires recompiling the kernal as i am led to believe, is there anyway to access the sd slot on this reader without compiling a new kernal?

I wrote a mini-howto at knoppix.net called Mount USB 6-in-1 Multi-Flash Card Reader with recompile. The instructions should apply to internal readers as well.

The short answer: in /etc/lilo.conf add append="max_scsi_luns=6"

still no worky, my thumb drive works fine, though i have to manually mount it myself, but when i try to manually mount the sd card, i get this:
root@Orion:/home/orion# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sd
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
my lilo.conf looks like this:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi max_scsi_luns=6"
boot = /dev/hda
message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 1200
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga = 773
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda3
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = windows
table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable paritition config ends

and my dmesg is this:Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Model: USB 2.0 Reader Rev: 1.05
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Current 00:00: 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 : 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
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: Logitech USB Receiver on usb2:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [045e:001d] on usb2:4.0
input: USB HID v1.10 Device [045e:001d] on usb2:4.1
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 9 ret -6
usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6
usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 4 rqt 128 rq 6 len 18 ret -6
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 803 MBytes.
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 3.7.0 [Dec 18 2003] on minor 0
Fire GL built-in AGP-support
Based on agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 816M
agpgart: Detected an Intel 845G Chipset, no integrated grapics found.
agpgart: Detected Intel i845 G/GL/GV/GE/PE chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
Power management callback for AGP chipset installed
[fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState = 0x1f000217 (hardware caps of chipset)
AGP: Found 2 AGPv2 devices
AGP: Doing enable for AGPv2
[fglrx] AGP enabled, AgpCommand = 0x1f000314 (selected caps)
[fglrx] free AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] max AGP = 54800384
[fglrx] free LFB = 116391936
[fglrx] max LFB = 116391936
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total AGP = 16384
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Current 00:00: 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 : 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: Write Protect is off
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
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.2-2, assigned address 2
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Mobile Model: Drive Rev: 1.11
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 129024 512-byte hdwr sectors (66 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: sdb1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2

where sdb1 is my thumb drive that was plugged in after the system was booted, i will also add that i have tried this by inserting the card both pre and post boot and get the same results. let me know if you need anything else from me to figure this out, im baffled

oh and i have a full install of slack 9.1 with the stock kernal and all packages installed during install

What's listed under /proc/scsi?

ide-scsi/ scsi sg/ usb-storage-0/ usb-storage-1/

I think that your devices are detected; you should probably leave your pendrive off while you troubleshoot the 6-in-1 reader.

I should have also asked you: 1) what distro are you using? 2) which kernel version? 3) what is the make of the 6-in-1 reader?

slack 9.1, stock 2.4xx kernal, and i have the pen drive off for all of this, i just put it in to test it once then took it back out, and its an apacer 6 in 1 reader

http://1toppc.com/Merchant2/merchant...gory_Code=MCRW
thats the one i have

no one? :-(

Well, sorry for the delay, but yesterday was Valentine's...

Since neither of my Slack boxes have USB, I just installed Slackware 9.0 to my USB-enabled Knoppix box. Using the max_scsi_luns boot option, Slack detected every LUN device on my Acomdata USB 6-in-1 card reader, but failed to mount /dev/sdc1 (my Smartmedia card).

As I wrote in my knoppix.net post, Knoppix detects and mounts (read/write) the USB card reader perfectly. You should try booting Knoppix 3.3 (don't use the early Knoppix 3.4 release yet) and testing your Apacer drive. At the Knoppix CD boot prompt, use the boot option knoppix max_scsi_luns=6 lang=en keyboard=us xkeyboard=us.

Both Knoppix and Slackware load the usbcore, usb-uhci and usb-storage modules by default. I tried fooling around with /etc/rc.d/rc.module in Slack, with no success.

I compared the two kernel config files; the only relevant differences I see are that the options CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR are enabled in Knoppix, but disabled in Slackware by default. After googling these options, my guess is that they are needed for vendor-specific SCSI extensions to mount the additional LUNs on the SCSI device.

I checked out the Apacer support site, and your drive is advertised as working with Linux out-of-the-box. Unfortunately, the user manual wasn't available for download. Any insights from that?

Sorry, but I'm not expert enough to provide more advice than the following:

1) Recompile your Slackware kernel and enable the SCSI option "Probe all LUNs"; or

2) Install Knoppix instead. If you choose this option, then do not install the latest Knoppix 3.3 or 3.4. The hard-drive install of Knoppix 3.4 is tricky, and there seems to be a problem with the XFree86 server in the 2004-02-09 version of Knoppix 3.3. I suggest installing the 2003-11-19 version of Knoppix 3.3 or even the 2003-07-26 version of Knoppix 3.2 (which is what I am currently using and it's stable as a rock).

Also, you might be interested to know that the Apacer USB 2.0 6-in-1 drive won't run properly under Windows (found this in a google search).

Originally posted by spurious The short answer: in /etc/lilo.conf add append="max_scsi_luns=6"

I have a 4 port USB Hub. Should I do similar, but change the 6 to a 4?

have a 4 port USB Hub. Should I do similar, but change the 6 to a 4?

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Sure, that will work, but as with Orion, you will probably have problems mounting the card device under Slack.

Both Knoppix and Slackware load the usbcore, usb-uhci and usb-storage modules by default. I tried fooling around with /etc/rc.d/rc.module in Slack, with no success.
that statement caught my eye, when i turn on my virtual machine in vmware i get this error:
VMware Workstation has detected the alternate UHCI host controller driver ("uhci") for USB.
Using USB devices within a virtual machine is unsupported with this driver loaded.
Please use the "usb-uhci" UHCI driver instead.
Could that be why this isnt working? and how do i change that? sorry noob to this usb stuff
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and i understand it was valentines, sorry for makin it look like i was jumpy