Hi, I have the same reader. The driver currently does not support WRITE permission. I believe they are working on it. Do a google search on ZIO Smartmedia and LINUX and you should find the page. Abraham expatriate wrote:
OK, here is what happened. Following Dylan's advice, I plugged the card into the reader first and then the reader into the USB port. I was unable to mount it. I then rebooted the machine (just a hunch) and voila! I could mount the reader (read-only though). I found out that attempting to mount the reader sans card would cause ALL subsequent mount attempts to fail. The only sure-fire way to make it work is to: 0) Reboot 1) put card in reader, plug reader on USB (wait for beep), mount /dev/sda1 2) read from card 3) umount /dev/sda1, unplug reader from USB, remove card from reader 4) Goto Step 1 for subsequent cards
I don't know about the [initial] reboot step, somehow the driver gets "hosed" when attempting to mount an empty reader and my limited intelligence did not allow me to figure out another way to "unhose" the driver. Any ideas?
The [non-insurmountable] problem remains that the card can only be mounted read-only. Thanks for the help.
I'm in the market for another USB SmartMedia reader, I've got Dazzle on my list. Any others?
Cheers
expatriate wrote:
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Saturday 05 April 2003 12:30 pm, expatriate wrote:
Dylan wrote:
>> On Saturday 05 April 2003 17:28, expatriate wrote: >>
>>>> Hello All >>>> >>>> I've been trawling the web looking for a definitive answer but >>>> have >>>> not been able to mount my Zio! SmartMedia card reader. I tried >>>> mounting /dev/sda1 but that failed. Has anyone had experience >>>> with >>>> this one? Failing that, can anyone recommend a failsafe USB >>>> SmartMedia reader/writer? >>>>
>> I use a Dazzle unit which only works corectly if it is plugged in >> with the card already in it. Took me a while to sort that out, but >> with the card in the right way and then plugging the usb cable >> in it >> comes up OK. If I put a card in while it's plugged then the card >> isn't recognised. >> >> Don't know if that'll help... >> >> What messages do you get on console 10 when you plug it up (hit >> ctrl-alf-F10 to see them)? >> >> Dylan >> >>
>>>> TIA >>>>
Hello there, Here's a piece of the log file:
Apr 5 18:17:11 lbox kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2 Apr 5 18:17:12 lbox kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Apr 5 18:17:12 lbox kernel: Device 08:00 not ready. Apr 5 18:17:12 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Apr 5 18:17:12 lbox kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Apr 5 18:17:17 lbox kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 4 Apr 5 18:17:17 lbox kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured Apr 5 18:17:17 lbox kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 4 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1525 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 4 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:19 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 6 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[79]: Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default. Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 4 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 70000 Apr 5 18:17:20 lbox kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 6
I'll try your connection trick.
By the way, can you R/W your card?
Also, I can read this card without any trouble using gtkam through the camera.
Does this reader ONLY read one type of media?
Yes, the reader is only for SmartMedia
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