Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:00:46 -0400 From: Christopher Sean Hilton <chris@vindaloo.com> To: mbermal@ucsd.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Olympus/Smart Media/USB Camera Message-ID: <20010710100045.A9413@andale.vindaloo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0107091620530.6890-100000@ieng9.ucsd.edu>; from mbermal@ieng9.ucsd.edu on Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:31:18PM -0700 References: <Pine.SOL.4.31.0107091620530.6890-100000@ieng9.ucsd.edu>
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 04:31:18PM -0700, Mark V Bermal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am in the market for a digital camera, and some of the models I have
> looked at are from Olympus, which uses SmartMedia (not Compact Flash) as
> the memory and also USB is available. I searched the archives and found
> that a certain Sandisk Compact Flash reader works on FBSD using USB (as a
> umass device), but has anyone found a working reader (or one that more
> than likely will work) for reading SmartMedia cards? Alternatively, has
> anyone hooked up an Olympus camera through USB directly using the umass
> device? What is the filesystem on the cards?
>
The SanDisk USB adapter that is supported by FreeBSD is hard to find. If you
have a laptop you may have better luck buying one of the PCMCIA SmartMedia
readers which is supported under FreeBSD just fine. They are about US
$45.00.
--
Chris Hilton chilton-at-vindaloo-dot-com
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