Folks,
I started not to type this but every time I have to unload a bunch of pictures
from my camera (several times a week as I have to take pix of the stores I
have to do work in) I have to dig out a USB cable and CF/SD/card of the
month adapter. A couple of years ago I had purchased a PCMCIA SD card
adapter which I used with NO problems whatsoever with SuSE 10 and 10.1
up to a point. Some time during my usage of 10.1 I did several updates to
10.1. This happened during a lull in my travel so I did not take pictures over
several update events. Then I took a trip, took a boat load of pictures of the
work site and popped the SD card into the handydandy adapter and NO JOY.
I tried again, same thing. I looked at the printout in messages and see some
info but not sure what to make of it:
Jul 26 22:49:27 RF-mobile kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
Jul 26 22:49:27 RF-mobile kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
Jul 26 22:49:28 RF-mobile kernel: Probing IDE interface ide2...
Jul 26 22:49:29 RF-mobile kernel: hde: CF Card, CFA DISK drive
Jul 26 22:49:29 RF-mobile kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0xf8)
instead of ALTSTATUS(0x0a)
Jul 26 22:49:30 RF-mobile kernel: hdf: probing with STATUS(0xdd)
instead of ALTSTATUS(0x0a)
Jul 26 22:49:32 RF-mobile kernel: ide2 at 0x4100-0x4107,0x410e on irq 4
Jul 26 22:49:32 RF-mobile kernel: hde: max request size: 128KiB
Jul 26 22:49:32 RF-mobile kernel: hde: 0 sectors (0 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=0/0/0
Jul 26 22:49:32 RF-mobile kernel: ide-cs: hde: Vpp = 0.0
The first question is the line:
Jul 26 22:49:29 RF-mobile kernel: hde: CF Card, CFA DISK drive
The card inserted is a SD card but perhaps it treats them all as CF cards
as I believe the internals are much the same...
Then there is hdf rather than hde...
The the last 3 lines:
max request size does not vary, if I put a larger card in it still
indicates 128KiB
and it shows zero sectors...
I wish I knew what got broke. I have looked and looked, I see a lot
of comments that the xyz sd card reader does not work, but beyond
that do not see anything that indicates what broke along the way.
The interesting thing is that the USB reader does work just fine, it is
just a PITA to carry around and dig out every time I need to move some
pix from the cam to the laptop. The little PCMCIA card reader was just
'there' in the laptop and all I had to do was stick a card in and read it.
-- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- To paraphrase my flight instructor; "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn and twisted metal." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
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