From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 26 16:53: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF81F37B422 for ; Sat, 26 May 2001 16:52:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 300) id BB3419B03; Sun, 27 May 2001 00:52:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arg1.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBB15D1E; Sun, 27 May 2001 00:52:56 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 00:52:56 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon X-X-Sender: To: Mike Meyer Cc: Subject: Re: digital camera In-Reply-To: <15120.13484.96225.821341@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: <20010527004034.W32758-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > Andrew Gordon 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