From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 15:55:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7760E37B404 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:55:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-34-52.knology.net [24.214.34.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F1843FDD for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:55:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2BNtW2T057419; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:55:32 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: (from dkelly@localhost) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.12.8/8.12.7/Submit) id h2BNtWb6057418; Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:55:32 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 17:55:32 -0600 From: David Kelly To: JacobRhoden Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: good compact flash/smart card readers? Message-ID: <20030311235532.GA57391@grumpy.dyndns.org> References: <200303121030.46047.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303121030.46047.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:30:46AM +1100, JacobRhoden wrote: > Hi, > > Im about to buy a usb cf card reader (i want to be able to write to cf cards) > does anyone here have one they would reccomend which works well in FreeBSD? SanDisk ImageMate, P/N SDDR-31, works exceptionally well. Just start usbd and plug it in. Dmesg will say something like this when it appears: umass0: SanDisk Corporation ImageMate CompactFlash USB, rev 1.10/0.09, addr 2 umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 650KB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Only "problem" here is when you have SCSI drives which are not "wired" in your kernel configuration. The USB SanDisk may pre-empt da0 on boot so your /etc/fsck is out of kilter. BTDT. SCSI disks needed to be wired in place anyhow but I've managed to go 8 years without. I thought it was a 1.0 MB/sec device on my Macintosh or somewhere. Maybe with a different USB interface under FreeBSD? Plugged into my G4's keyboard and asking what Apple System Profiler says, it only says, "Device Speed: Full." What ever that means. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message