6 in 1 usb card readers

PowerFactor · Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2003 5:09 am Post subject: 6 in 1 usb card readers

I want to get a 6 in 1 card reader but I was just wondering if any of them work completely with linux. I've herd that with some only the compact flash portion works. That wouldn't help me as what I need right now is the smart media portion. I only need smart media right now but since the 6 in 1 models are so cheap I thought I would get one if it would work with linux. Anybody have any luck with these?

dek · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

I have a reader that works perfectly.
No special driver needed, i just load the usual modules usb-storage, sd_mod and vfat. Since it is a no-name product i can't tell you anything about the vendor, it is just listed as "USB Reader".

It took me a while to figure out how to make use of all the different cards. At first only the compact flash part worked for me. I had to activate "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" in the kernel config. Now all devices are created through devfs.

cryos · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Posts: 242 Location: US

I have a SmartDisk USB card reader (does 3 of the main memory disks). It does seem to be recognised by the kernel, but I have not yet managed to actually read a card. I actually want to use the Sony MemoryStick portion of it, but don't really know how to go about this as yet.

Any tips and/or pointers on this would be appreciated! Where in /dev might I find it? I have one entry in scsi that may be referring to it, but it is 3 different devices under Win2k.

kha · n00b Joined: 19 Mar 2003 Posts: 41

I am using yhe Dazzle 6 in One usb reader, it works fairly well. I have tested it with compact-flash, SD and Memory stick. The three of them went fine.
In USB View it is detected as Orca card reader. It is working quite well most of the time, even though some time, it will go in timeout, and won't get initialized. I think this is due to my built-in memory stick reader (which I could never get to work).

Please note that the initialization can happen in any order. On my laptop I never know where a specific flash card is going to get mounted. Since I have three drive (1 for built-in MS + 2 for Dazzle) I must have 3 mount point.

Appart form this everything is working fine 9 time out of ten (and I am using unstable kernels 2.5.65 or 2.5.66) .

Kha
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mellofone · Apprentice Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 287

I am having the same problem with my 6 in 1 reader. It is technically a no namer, but I think the install CD is named something like Coolmax...

This one connects directly to the motherboard instead of the standard usb plug. USB works, as I have my archos jukebox and a single card cf reader working on the same system. The device is found: