From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 3:21:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A759337B40E for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 03:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 82592 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 2001 10:21:13 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15226.19737.869882.771667@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 05:21:13 -0500 To: William Ward Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SanDisk USB works? In-Reply-To: <20010814194010.C341@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> References: <92009493@toto.iv> <15224.57467.631018.106560@guru.mired.org> <20010814173035.A494@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> <15225.46612.900419.73332@guru.mired.org> <20010814194445.A954@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> <20010814221222.A13768@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> <20010814194010.C341@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 William Ward types: > No problem. Is there another SDDR that accepts the came media as the > SDDR-09? Not that I know of, but other manufacturers readers work fine. The Fujifilm SM-R1 and SM-R2 both work with smartmedia, and someone mentioned an inexpensive one on -questions as well. The Fujifilm unit requires a software eject before you can take the card out of the reader. > > The SanDisk readers reported to work are the SDDR-31 and SDDR-05a. The > > SDDR-09-01 and SDDR-05 are known not to work. > Where is the description for this thing? Hell! I'll just *make* it > work if that's how it is. You need to find out what the protocol is, and write the driver. Probably easier to sell it to a Windows users and get a reader that uses one of the supported protocols. William Ward types: > I think i'm starting to see why this thing doesn't work. Umass supports > SCSI, UFI and ATAPI. This thing isn't any of the three. > Is it just dumb luck that any of the SanDisk stuff worked in the first > place? Nah, it's expected. The first examples of some type of hardware always use proprietary protocols and custom drivers. Then standards are adopted, the manufacturers start following them, and eventually all the devices use standard chip sets and they'll all pretty much work with standard drviers. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message