From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 7:11:59 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 D10AD37B40B for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 90287 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 2001 14:11:52 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15226.33576.750510.398424@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:11:52 -0500 To: William Ward Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SanDisk USB works? 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> 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: > 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? 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? 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