Re: [SLUG] Western Digital Media Center - Linux compatibility

From: Larry Brown (larry.brown@dimensionnetworks.com)
Date: Wed Dec 29 2004 - 08:19:37 EST


On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:29, Richard Smoot wrote:
> Larry Brown wrote:
>
> >I was wondering if anyone has run across this external drive / media
> >reader? I would imagine the drive would be recognizable by the OS as an
> >external storage device, but I don't know about the card reader. I
> >already have a card reader integrated into a printer ( photosmart 1215 )
> >and haven't figured out a way to access it. I googled around for a
> >pretty long time and haven't seen mention of whether or not it is
> >compatible with Linux at all.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Larry
> >
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> What Distro are you using? Suse and Xandros have seen two differant
> readers for me
> as removable disks. If your camera has USB output you can start your
> system with the
> camera hooked up and it will probably see it as a removable drive.
> I have used an external DVD drive with no trouble without using any
> special software.
>
> For an integrated media reader you may need to get Linux drivers from HP.
>
> Richard Smoot

Yes, I'm hoping to find someone who has used this specific external
device and knows what to expect. I'm running Suse on my main system,
but I'm not married to Suse in any way.

But thanks for the suggestion...

Larry

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