I assume that is why the microdrive comes with its own PCMCIA adapter. But
anyhow, my question was related to Linux since it works fine with the other
OS. I will try to update my system to 2.4.16 tonight and see if it solves
the problem.
Avi
--On Thursday, December 20, 2001 08:29:56 AM +0000 dids
Never got my sandisk to read it, in fact it destroyed the microdrive, which came from Hong Kong. Had it replaced once and then it did it again. Too expensive to try again.
managed the same thing fine with an ordinary CF card.
dids
Hi,
I am using a digital camera with a 1GB IBM MicroDrive. I can use Windows to connect to the camera via USB (it is a mass storage) and see the picture files and everything is fine. With Linux though, I have a big problem. It doesn't matter if I connect via USB or plug the Microdrive into the PCMCIA slot using the supplied adapter, all I see is (what seems to be) a corrupted directory structure. In other words, instead of file names I see a bunch of garbage as in the following example:
bash-2.05# ls /cf/dcim/100olymp/ ?$?ûã?Ä .wŸ? #?d©w?¥.ݵe fà3?dÍ7e.lyÚ t«?©Ñ]€.e·u ?o,lzk¶e.nxÞ ·Ã?x bb7.?Ýó Ü{ºdv:îÇ.#pd ? ?óÛ?Ž?.?þÑ &$nûc?Ä¡.wŒ? fý3åd¹7?.?åÝ uù??(©¯.¡€œ ?q2pf?Î?.cÔ9 ¹gp<âË;h.tcê Þšc®y£?¹.å?5
I am pretty sure there is nothing wrong with the data on the microdrive since (1) the camera has no problem replaying the images and (2) Windows 2K has no problem reading the data (as in Linux, I didn't need to install any special drivers).
My system is running SuSE 7.2 with the 2.4.7 kernel.
Is anyone using a digital camera with a Microdrive successfully under Linux? -- Avi Schwartz avi@CFFtechnologies.com
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