[ale] sandisk smartmedia card via a USB reader under Fedora

[Pete Hardie]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:03:49 -0500, Yu, Jerry <Jerry.Yu at voicecom.com> wrote:
> I had this nagging problem. the card/reader shows up as sda1. I can mount it
> and start to copy files off it. Then it will hang at random place (after 1
> or 6 photos, each 400K).  A few minutes timed out. /dev/sda1 no longer
> accessible. At the same time, the same smartmedia card shows up as sdb1
> (seen from 'dmesg') !  If I mount this new 'sdb1', it will work flawless
> from that point on. what gives?! 

Is this a multi-type USB reader?  I've read on the web about setting
up those N-in-1 readers and the different slots all get different
device numbers.  Maybe your system is slow to mount the slots and you
are getting the error when it moves the slot around.

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