[Nottingham] SanDisk

[Ron Wilton]

Hello Dean

I have tried a couple of things that you have suggested in your two emails.

Firstly...

1) Started computer (card reader not attached)

2) Ran dmesg

3) Connected card reader to USB (with card already inserted into reader)

4) Waited for 10 seconds

5) Ran dmesg again

The only difference I can see between the output of 2) and 5) (which was at the end of the printout) is as follows:-

[  217.167806] usb 3-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[  222.280465] usb 3-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  222.418286] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual
[  222.433025] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[  222.433159] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[  222.433236] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[  222.433240] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[  222.433400] usb-storage: device found at 2
[  222.433404] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[  227.416196] usb-storage: device scan complete
[  227.416940] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9339 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[  227.734592] scsi 0:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9339 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[  228.052221] scsi 0:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9339 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[  228.369860] scsi 0:0:0:3: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9339 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[  229.004710] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
[  229.956377] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[  230.590891] sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
[  231.225532] sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
[  231.273337] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[  231.273807] sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[  231.274179] sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[  231.274545] sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0


Secondly...

1) Restarted computer (card reader not attached)

2) Connected card reader to USB (with card already inserted into reader)

3) Opened the Computer File Browser in the Places menu

4) Found two relevant icons

    a) smartcard
    b) Generic STORAGE DEVICE

5) Double clicked on 'smartcard' and got following message

    Unable to mount the selected volume
    mount special device /dev/smartcard1 does not exist

6) Double clicked on 'Generic STORAGE DEVICE' and got the following message

    Unable to mount media
    There is probably no media in the drive

7) Right clicked on the 'smartcard' icon. Tried the 'Mount Volume' option, but got message as in 5) above.

8) Right clicked on the 'Generic STORAGE DEVICE' icon. Tried the 'Mount Volume' option, but got message as in 6) above.


Note:
I have put the following in my fstab file...

/dev/smartcard1      /mnt/smartcard vfat user,noauto 0 0

...and I have created the following directory...

/mnt/smartcard

Also, the card reader has four reader/writer slots (does this explain sda to sdd in the above printout?).


Hoping the above clearly shows what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks for your previous emails. Much appreciated.

Ron





Dean Sas <dean at deansas.org> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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James Gibbon wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:26:11 +0100 (BST)
> Ron Wilton  wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>>
>> I think that I might have been a little bit hasty and bought a
>> SanDisk ImageMate USB 2.0 12-in-1 Card Reader/Writer thinking that it
>> was just as easy as plug in and an image will come onto the screen on
>> which I could view/download photos on the SmartMedia card that I
>> have. This hasn't happened. Can anyone help me, please? I'm using
>> Ubuntu Linux 7.04 Fiesty Fawn.

Does an entry for the card appear in the Places menu? If so you can
define an action for it to take in the system->preferences->removable
drives and media capplet. (From your description you probably want to
select the mount and browse options)

> In this case, the card reader is recognised as /dev/sdb, and if I had
> a card inserted, that would be /dev/sdb1.
> 
> I find that a custom udev rule helps a lot - so that I always have a
> consistently named device I can mount to get at photos on the card,
> and my fstab entry is:

Ubuntu uses UUIDs instead of /dev/sdb1 etc, so I *think* that this
should work fine anyway.

Hope that helps,

Dean
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