Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 00:52:56 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: digital camera Message-ID: <20010527004034.W32758-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <15120.13484.96225.821341@guru.mired.org>
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On Sat, 26 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> types: > > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > I don't know about MemoryStick, but SmartMedia is a nightmare. The > > > interface is proprietary, and ugly. You write magic values to sector > > > zero to make blocks appear in sector 1, or some such. That it uses > > I don't know why you say SmartMedia is proprietary. The media itself is > > Because none of the three or four people I found working on drivers > knew about this: > > > The spec for this is available from: > > http://www.ssfdc.or.jp/spec/index_e.htm > > Or at least, I assume that's the layer that documents how you go about > reading blocks off the device, which is what they were all trying to > figure out by reverse engineering the devices they had. They document all the layers (including a description of the FAT12 filesystem), but most of the info is also available elsewhere. The layer I'm referring to is how you map the 264- or 528-byte sectors of the raw device into logical blocks onto which to write a filesystem. For how to get the raw sectors in/out of the device, the manufacturers' data sheets are probably a better bet. > > I use a "FujiFilm Image Memory Card Reader, model SM-R1", which works > > fairly well under FreeBSD (I'm using 4.3-R). > > The first one I tried - Sandisk, because the CF Sandisk reader was > reported as working - didn't work at all. Got any hints on where I can > find one of these things? Do you happen to know if the SM-R2 - which > is what Fuji seems to be selling now - will also work? As you say, my SM-R1 appears to be obsolete. I need another one, so I've just ordered an SM-R2 - I'll let you know what happens when it arrives. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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