[ale] USB CF Reader?

Wed May 28 09:31:14 EDT 2003

On Tuesday 27 May 2003 02:34 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 14:07, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:31 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 11:33, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 25 May 2003 01:38 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > > > I had to recompile my scsi drivers to add "check all LUN's" so
> > > > > my reader would recognize all of it' sockets. I have a USB
> > > > > San-Disk ImageMate reader that support CF and SD media. Then it
> > > > > was recognizable. Some tweaking with /etc/fstab and it can auto
> > > > > mount (with some tweaks in the gnome automount daemon).
> > > >
> > > > Were you able to get it to read any SD media?  It sounds like I
> > > > have the same device, but I've only ever been able to read CF
> > > > media, not SD.  Do they end up at the same place for you?
> > >
> > > I was able to read and write to the SD card. That's how I moved some
> > > stuff to my Zaurus. I have not tested the CF media as I don't have
> > > any (yet).
> >
> > Hmm.  What fs is on your SD?  I wonder if my problem is that my SD is
> > ext2 and my CF is vfat.
>
> My SD is vfat.
>
> > I didn't realize you had joined the Zaurus club.  Welcome.  Do we need
> > to form an ALE subgroup--AZE?  ;-)
>
> I caught the deal announced on /. from the shopping channel. Under $200!
> As soon as I can actually synch this thing I'll be a card toting member
> of AZE! I tried a perl script I found on the zaurus site (one of them,
> I'm not sure which ?unofficial zaurus?) and it scrambled my evolution
> files. Fortunately, I did a tar before I tested so the restore was a one
> liner. Been to busy to play with it for far too long. I'm about to pop
> to get the CF 802.11b card!

I find qtopiadesktop works pretty well.  I can't get the rpm for the 
non-beta to install, but the beta (the second beta, I think) works like a 
champ.  Of course, it doesn't sync to evolution.  I just use qtopia 
desktop for my desktop PIM.

> Ah, toys that can also be tools!

and vice versa!

Michael

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