[mythtv-users] Trying to get my card reader to work

Paul Bender pebender at san.rr.com
Thu Nov 9 03:26:50 UTC 2006


Brian Wood wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2006, at 7:37 PM, Paul Bender wrote:
> 
>> Richard Bronosky wrote:
>>> I've been trying this on and off for over a year.  I have a 6-in-1
>>> card reader that fits in the floppy drive bay and connects to the
>>> internal USB header.  I know that the connection to the header is
>>> working because I can get the USB port on the reader to drive my
>>> keyboard.
>>>
>>> Tonight I noticed that the dmesg statement says that it is a CF CARD
>>> Reader.  I don't have a CF CARD to test, I only use SD cards.  Any
>>> idea how to get the 6-in-1 device to not be a 1-in-1 (CF only device)
>>> under Linux?
>>>
>>> BTW, I am running KnoppMyth R5C1 which is debian based.
>> I believe these devices are treated as multi-LUN SCSI devices. If you
>> kernel is not set up with multi-LUN SCSI support, then you may only  
>> see
>> one of the devices.
>>
> 
> Mine behaves as multiple scsi devices, not multiple LUNs of a single  
> SCSI device. In other words the four slots are sen as different  
> devices, so:
> 
> /dev/sda is my SATA drive
> 
> /dev/sdb through /dev/sde are the four slots of the USB-connected  
> card reader.
> 
> So if I plug in a USB flash drive it becomes /dev/sdf.
> 
> I do not have multiple LUNs enabled in my kernel. I do, of course,  
> have USB mass storage enabled.
> 
> This is on a non-Myth Gentoo machine, I don't have a card reader on  
> the Myth box, but I wouldn't think it would make any difference. An  
> older Dell machine that I have running SuSE behaves the same way with  
> a different USB card reader.
> 
> But of course, as always, YMMV.

Each logical device shows up as a different SCSI device. Here is more 
info 
<https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/howto/multicard.reader.sl4x>.


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