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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:43 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > Thanks, I followed the faq to the letter and it show a dialog when I
> > insert a USB stick. Unfortunately when I insert an sdcard still nothing
> > happens.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that dbus and/or hald have anything to do with this?
> (I thought those were specific to X...)
> 
> When attaching a USB device to a USB port, the kernel will notice the
> device has been added and will do the proper enumeration.  For example,
> when adding a USB hard disk or a USB pen drive, a umass device will be
> found, then a daX device should be created (which is what you use to
> access the disk; USB storage devices appear as SCSI disks).
> 
> But in the case of a USB device that's already attached to the bus, e.g.
> one of those 7-in-1 card readers, I cannot see how adding a SD/MMC card
> would cause the hard disk to suddenly show up.
> 
> You would need to run "camcontrol rescan 0", to cause the device to be
> re-scanned for any media which was inserted.

Thanks for the quick and extensive answer. I'll check the exact behavior of  
the 7-in-1 card reader somewhat more.


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Regards,

Aniruddha