RE: USB SanDisk SmartMedia - some results.

[Dunlap, Randy]

Hi Drew,

> From: Drew Bertola [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 6:40 PM
> 
> Dunlap, Randy writes:
> > I'm a little confused.  Are you working with SanDisk on this?
> > Also, have you tried to use the usb-storage driver with this
> > device?  Matt Dharm has been working with SanDisk on
> > CompactFlash, but I don't know about SmartMedia.
> 
> No, I'm not working with them, but I did have a chat with them today.

That's fine.  BTW, Matt is on vacation for 3 weeks, so any
effort to contact him is probably futile.

> > > # ls /mnt/usb/001/  
> > > 001  002                          <----- What are these ??
> > 
> > These are device descriptor data for devices 1 and 2 as listed
> > below in ASCII in /proc/bus/usb/devices , uh, I mean in 
> /mnt/usb/devices .
> 
> Are you trying to tell me that I should 
> # mount /proc/bus/usb -t usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb  ???

usbcore creates a mount point at /proc/bus/usb, so the
expected mount is: mount -t usbdevfs {tag | none} /proc/bus/usb
(I usually use tag=usb, but that's not dictated anywhere.)

> > Try the usb-storage driver.  Check the linux-usb email archives
> > for other SmartMedia attempts and results.
> 
> Nothing comes up in the list archive for either SanDisk or SmartMedia.
> Strange, I would've thought there'd be something.

www.linux-usb.org + Mailing Lists shows 3 archives.
Which one(s) did you look in?

At http://electricrain.com/lists/archive/linux-usb/,
search for "sandisk" (year 2000 is OK).  I got 52 hits.
"smartmedia" got 49 hits.
"compactflash" got 23 hits.

We just switched to the other maillist & archive at sourceforge
(geocrawler), so it may not contain any sandisk/smartmedia/CF
mail.

I saw that Doug Gilbert answered some of your questions also.
If you still have some, let me/us know.

~Randy