[Lancaster] Multi-card reader

[Ken Hough]

I bought a Trust USB2 card reader from my local supermarket. Yes, I know that 
wouldn't have been the best price, but shopping for veg, etc gets 
boring.  :-)

This is a nicely made item which can read most kinds of memory card (incl. 
SD/MMC/CFI/CFII/MD/SMC/XD and MS). It works on my SUSE Linux, Win XP and 
Vista (Ugh!) systems without the need for any drivers or extra configuration.

Ken Hough



On Tuesday 28 October 2008 15:38, mp wrote:
> andy baxter wrote:
> > Ken Walton wrote:
> >> <decloaking>
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I've just bought a Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 8-in-1 Media Reader and
> >> Writer (model no. F5U248). I (possibly naively) assumed it would just
> >> work in Linux -- after all, all it has to do is channel the info to
> >> and from a memory card (CF, SD, etc) -- but it seems that it needs a
> >> driver. It comes with Windows & Mac drivers of course, but not Linux,
> >> and I can't find any drivers on the internet. Anyone know if it's
> >> possible to get this device working in Linux, or if not, whether
> >> there's a similar device that does the same job and *is* Linux
> >> compatible?
> >
> > It should work as usb mass storage, same as a usb memory stick. I have a
> > 'hama usb2.0 card reader 1.000 & 1' which works this way and works fine
> > under linux.
>
> from: http://3cx.org/item/25/catid/11
>
>
> I recently purchased the Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 8-in-1 Media Reader
> (F5U248) so I could more easily access the different memory media
> formats that pass through my hands. For your pleasure, a quick and dirty
> review.
>
> This is a great little product that works flawlessly under linux. It is
> seen as a usb-storage device (SCSI over USB) which makes this media
> reader pretty standard fair. There is, however, one catch. Your kernel
> must support multiple LUNs on a single SCSI device (kernel config param
> CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y).
>
> My daily home system runs Fedora Core 1 (Yarrow) with all the latest
> patches. The current kernel for Core 1 as I write this is
> 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl. This kernel does not support multi-LUN SCSI devices,
> so I only had access to the first LUN, which is the CompactFlash slot. I
> had to recompile the kernel from the Fedora 2188 patched source (easier
> said than done) before I could access all the slots (LUNs).
>
> Starting from the upper left slot going clockwise, the LUNs line up like
> this:
>
> 1st LUN - CompactFlash
> 2nd LUN - MemoryStick
> 3rd LUN - SmartMedia
> 4th LUN - Secure Digital/MultiMediaCard (SD/MMC).
>
> In my system, which has no SCSI hard disks, the slots line up with the
> sd devices in the same clockwise fashion. CF = /dev/sda, MemStick =
> /dev/sdb, SmartMedia = /dev/sdc, and SD/MMC = /dev/sdd. All media I've
> put in so far has shown up as the first partition. My SD/MMCs mount from
> /dev/sdd1 and my Smart Media mounts from /dev/sdc1.
>
> All in all the thing works great. The multi-LUN SCSI support threw me at
> first though. I hope now that I've written this your go at it will be
> easier.
>
>
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