From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 19:07:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCADC16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:07:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF1443D41 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:07:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2SJ7CIw028816; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:07:12 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j2SJ7Crn028815; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:07:12 -0800 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:07:12 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20050328190712.GD14375@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <423F3ED0.12201.61A3CFB@localhost> <424808E0.31089.E8D5D5C@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <424808E0.31089.E8D5D5C@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB card readers X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:07:15 -0000 --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:38:40PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 22 Mar 2005 at 20:21, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >=20 > > This gives me the opportunity to comment on the "16 in 1 Cardreader USB > > 2.0" made by SilverCrest (http://www.mysilvercrest.de/) > >=20 > > I got this cardreader really cheap, but I don't know if I can recommend > > it. The reason? It only works if the card is already inserted when you > > attach the reader to an usb connector. Inserting and removing cards > > while the card reader is attached has no effect. >=20 > I have similar results with the "USB 2.0 Flash Card Reader" by=20 > StarTech.com. It works if the cards are in the device before the=20 > device is attached to the laptop. Inserting and/or removing cards=20 > while attached to the laptop does not generate any /var/log/messages=20 > entries. I just purchased a Sabrent 16-in-1 card reader and it seems to work. It shows up as four devices. There's no automatic media detection so you have to access the device once to get the right device nodes for the slices to appear, but otherwise it seems to work. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCSFXfXY6L6fI4GtQRAj1MAJ4iM3FFvVPoeYs3N+NqpsvwKTTzEACgugSj iIasO2ODFxbJgPImCxEaCJc= =iTtX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KdquIMZPjGJQvRdI--