From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 6:58: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net (d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net [209.196.125.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1214D37B409 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wardd@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net) Received: (from wardd@localhost) by d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f7F9GG801540; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:16:16 GMT (envelope-from wardd) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:01 +0000 From: William Ward To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SanDisk USB works? Message-ID: <20010815091501.A1508@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> <15226.19737.869882.771667@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15226.19737.869882.771667@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:21:13AM -0500 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, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:21:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. Thanks, Mike! This is great info! I'm going to get one of these today. Can the FreeBSD driver do the software eject? I can use cdcontrol to eject SuperFloppies. Same thing? > > > 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. From the bits and pieces it looks like it is a lot like the SDDR-31 and has a set of either ATAPI or SCSI commands to control it. There is an example implementation in that other free operating system. /William To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message