Hello James<br><br>Thanks for your helpful reply. However, I don't think I've understood what you've told me too well as I'm not able to get to the files on the disk. I wondered if you could help me further, please?<br><br>I've done the following:-<br><br>1) added the following line to the end of /etc/fstab<br><br>/dev/smartcard1 /mnt/smartcard vfat user,noauto 0 0<br><br>2) created the following directory by using<br><br>$ sudo mkdir /mnt/smartcard<br><br>3) restarted the computer<br><br>4) plugged in the Card Reader with the SmartMedia disk already inserted<br><br>At this point I'm expecting to see an icon on the screen with which to enable me to access the photos, but nothing has happened.<br><br>(Note: I'm not sure if this is relevant but this device has four removable drives)<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Ron<br><br><br><br><br><b><i>James Gibbon <jg@jamesgibbon.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid
rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:26:11 +0100 (BST)<br>Ron Wilton <ron_w_add@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br><br>> Hello<br>> <br>> I think that I might have been a little bit hasty and bought a<br>> SanDisk ImageMate USB 2.0 12-in-1 Card Reader/Writer thinking that it<br>> was just as easy as plug in and an image will come onto the screen on<br>> which I could view/download photos on the SmartMedia card that I<br>> have. This hasn't happened. Can anyone help me, please? I'm using<br>> Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Fiesty Fawn.<br>> <br><br>Hi Ron,<br><br>Card readers work in a very similar way to USB memory sticks, so it<br>has to be mounted in order to get at the files. You may find that your<br>distro does this for you, but in any case - type dmesg when you plug it<br>in (with SmartMedia card inserted), and you might see something<br>roughly like:<br><br> Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00<br> Type:
Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00<br>sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb<br><br>In this case, the card reader is recognised as /dev/sdb, and if I had<br>a card inserted, that would be /dev/sdb1.<br><br>The filesystem on the card will be VFAT.<br><br>I find that a custom udev rule helps a lot - so that I always have a<br>consistently named device I can mount to get at photos on the card,<br>and my fstab entry is:<br><br>/dev/smartcard1 /mnt/smartcard vfat user,noauto 0 0<br><br>.. facilitated by the following UDEV rule:<br><br>BUS=="usb", SYSFS{serial}=="2004888", KERNEL=="sd*", NAME="%k",<br>SYMLINK="smartcard%n"<br><br>.. which recognises the card on the basis of its serial number:<br><br>sauce:~> cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage/2 <br> Host scsi2: usb-storage<br> Vendor: <br> Product: USB Reader<br>Serial Number: 2004888<br> Protocol: Transparent SCSI<br> Transport: Bulk<br> Quirks:<br>sauce:~> <br><br>..
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