Subject: Re: Card Reader locks up PC
From: Jim Gribbin (jgribbin@alaska.net)
Date: Mon Sep 08 2003 - 22:54:23 AKDT
Neil,
You might want to check out:
http://sackheads.org/~mayfield/software/usb.html
This site is linked from the linux-usb site. Apparently most of the
memory readers are still in 'alpha', but a couple appear to be working
(somewhat anyway).
Jim
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:29, Neil Moomey wrote:
> I've spent allot of time on this project and I'm going nowhere. All I
> want is a reliable CF card USB 2.0 reader on RH9. I've tried two card
> readers, a Belkin multi and a Dazzle CF card reader. Both USB 2.0. I
> have a USB2 Card, Adaptec 4 port AUA-4000A. I can mount the card ok
> with fstab:
>
> /dev/sdb1 /mnt/card auto soft,timeo=2,sync,user,w,noauto 0 0
>
> I've tried other combinations too and they work fine. Nautilus is able
> to see the files on the CF card and draw the thumbnails ok and sometimes
> I can even copy a file or two but most of the time when I copy a file
> the dialog copy box freezes and stays open. When I try to reboot,
> nothing. Turning off the PC doesn't work either. I have to throw the
> power switch. I took some photos of some Moose this morning and I've
> spent more time trying to download them to my PC than it took me to take
> the photos! I've rebooted my PC 6 times at least with the same
> results. The photos are 2-3 MB each.
>
> The card reader works fine in Windows 2000 but yesterday I installed
> Visual Studio 2003 and now it says my password is wrong so I can't log
> in.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Unlucky
>
>
>
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