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Date:      Fri, 22 Nov 2002 22:09:10 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
To:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: USB Compact Flash reader
Message-ID:  <200211222209.10433.dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021122204023.40c50363.peter@milneweb.com>
References:  <20021122204023.40c50363.peter@milneweb.com>

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On Friday 22 November 2002 09:40 pm, Peter Milne wrote:
> Would it be possible to get a USB flash card reader to work in
> FreeBSD?
>
> I don't suppose I could plug it and it would work?  :O)  What must I
> do to get it working?

There is a SanDisk model which works just about that easily.

Need to run usbd. Then the CF card appears on /dev/da0 on my system. 
Have ufs filesystems on the CF cards we use so root has to mount them. 
But if dealing with CF cards from a camera I'd look into mtools from 
the ports. Used it a lot in the past with floppies. Do most DOS-like 
commands to floppies without mounting the filesystem. Without need of 
being root if you can read/write /dev/da0.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
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