6 in 1 card reader; but only CF works, but I need SD!

[servo888]

I'm having some problems getting my cardreader to work. So I plug in the usb reader and dmesg says it's pluged in.


usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 16
scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: SOYO Model: CF/MD Rev: 0204
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 16


So the card reader works. Now lets say I have a CF card pluged in it returns:

scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: SOYO Model: CF/MD Rev: 0204
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdd: 250880 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)
sdd: assuming Write Enabled
sdd: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host9/bus0/target0/lun0: p1


So I can read / write to the CF card (well not right now because it's dead {*sigh* I/O errors}), so it creates something like /dev/sda1.
But when a SD card is present nothing is returned and no scsi device is created in /dev/. What could I be doing wrong, or what am I missing?

thanks for listening

-servo

[gehidore]

do you have the correct or closest modules loaded for the 6in1 reader?

[servo888]

Originally posted by gehidore
do you have the correct or closest modules loaded for the 6in1 reader?

There are no modules for the 6in1 reader; that's why I use the scsi and usb mass-storage modules; as many documentations say to use. The problem is most documentations I've read the author only tested his CF card (which does work in my case because I can mount / unmount and fdisk my cf card). It's just the other cards such as SD that do not show up as sdb or sda2.

[gehidore]

do you have a camera that will use sd cards?
i ran into the same problem with a sd reader that failed me but i can use my dimage z1 with the usb plug to move files then i can just plug the card into my jornada ppc

[Hayl]

I think that gehidore was referring to these options in the kernel.

[ ] SanDisk SDDR-55 SmartMedia support (EXPERIMENTAL)

[ ] SanDisk SDDR-09 (and other SmartMedia) support (EXPERIMENTAL)

those have to be explicitly built in or the mass storage won't be able to use SD media.

[servo888]

Originally posted by gehidore
do you have a camera that will use sd cards?
i ran into the same problem with a sd reader that failed me but i can use my dimage z1 with the usb plug to move files then i can just plug the card into my jornada ppc

lol yea I use my camera for reading SD cards =-). But it's been giving me some problems latly. I'll try out what Hayl said right now.

[spurious]

I wrote a short how-to for Knoppix at knoppix.net called "Mount USB 6-in-1 multiflash card reader without recompile" (http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37165).

Try adding this to your lilo.conf:

append="max_scsi_luns=6"

However, the above doesn't work for Slackware; you will have to recompile the kernel to include the 'Probe all LUNs' SCSI option.