Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:11:52 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: William Ward <wardd@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SanDisk USB works? Message-ID: <15226.33576.750510.398424@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <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> <20010815091501.A1508@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net>
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William Ward <wardd@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> types: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:21:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > William Ward <wardd@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> 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? It's camcontrol, but yes, you can do it from software. > > > > 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. The V System? Plan 9? The clouds stuff? NetBSD? Which other free operating system? <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> 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
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