SDDR-05b ImageMate??? USB CompactFlash Reader cant find

firstly, it may not have been on the list that Warren or anyone else owned and tested; more details of some files may be needed to get this running
secondly if you using an older version of mepis it may not work.
can you see this in kde info centre under usb devices?
liz

What files would you need to diagnose the problem? I am using the latest release SimplyMepis 2004.04 (This is the latest?). However the card reader is 3-4 years old.

Thanks, Jeff

from a konsole, as superuser,
tail /var/log/messages

after plugging in the device
which gives me
Nov 13 19:09:15 BigBoss kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 4
Nov 13 19:09:15 BigBoss kernel: drivers/usb/core/config.c: unexpected descriptor 0x5, expecting interface, 0x4
Nov 13 19:10:33 BigBoss kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 5
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss usb.agent[7503]: usb-storage: loaded successfully
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate CF-SM Rev: 0100
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss scsi.agent[7539]: bogus sysfs DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 13 19:10:34 BigBoss kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0

this needs to be emailed to warren or to the dev-mepis list
liz

The following is what I get:

root@4[jeff]# tail /var/log/messages
Nov 13 14:04:28 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 in?? to 8x mode
Nov 13 14:04:28 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: SiS delay workaround: giving bridge time???? to recover.
Nov 13 14:04:28 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 in?? to 8x mode
Nov 13 14:06:41 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2236): starting (version 2.6.4), pid 2236 us?? er 'jeff'
Nov 13 14:06:41 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2236): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/g?? conf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Nov 13 14:06:41 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2236): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home?? /jeff/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Nov 13 14:06:41 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2236): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/g?? conf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Nov 13 14:07:36 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Nov 13 14:07:36 mepis1 kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c039f0c0(lo?? )
Nov 13 14:07:36 mepis1 kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Thanks, Jeff

in KDE Info Center, the device seems to be recognized; I have the following info there:

USB CFII

Manufacturer: SanDisk

Class
0
((Defined at Interface level))
Subclass
0
Protocol
0
USB Version
0.1

Vendor ID
0x781
(SanDisk Corp.)
Product ID
0x5
(SDDR-05b (CF II) ImageMate CompactFlash Reader)
Revision
0.5

Speed
12 Mbit/s
Channels
0
Max. Packet Size
0

Maybe I'm just not clear on how to mount the device? Do I need to edit fstab in some way?

Thanks, Jeff

You can try dropping the following line into your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
...and mounting it:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
...but I don't see a confirmation of the USB coming up properly in your tailed messages.

if you do:
lsmod
do you get the following in the list?

uhci_hcd 22928 0
ohci_hcd 14980 0

...and what kernel are you booting (something I might have missed)?

An SDDR-88 gives the following Info Center listing:

Manufacturer: SanDisk
Serial #: 0000233262
Class 0 ((Defined at Interface level))
Subclass 0
Protocol 0
USB Version 2.0

Vendor ID 0x781 (SanDisk Corp.)
Product ID 0x8889
Revision 145.57

Speed 480Mbits/s
Channels 0
Max. Packet Size 0

If you:

# cat /var/log/messages

You should be able to pick out some pertinent entries that generally conform to the following excerpts:

Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: PnPBIOS: 13 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 13 recorded by driver
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub

Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: EHCI Host Controller
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: irq 10, pci mem f8b31f00
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.

Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using address 2
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 9139
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 9139
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 9139
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 9139
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3

Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: UHCI Host Controller
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 11, io base 0000d800
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: UHCI Host Controller
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 3, io base 0000dc00
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: UHCI Host Controller
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 5, io base 0000e000
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected

Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2, type 0
Nov 18 10:59:21 {HN} kernel: Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3, type 0

Nov 18 11:19:22 {HN} -- MARK --

----------------------------

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards you hear satanic messages.
That's nothing. If you play it forwards, it installs Windows!

Ok, I tried that and get the following:

root@0[jeff]# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash
mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
root@0[jeff]#

I should mention that sda1 is my USB external hard drive and I also have a USB printer,USB scanner, and 4 port USB Hub; all working perfectly (the Flash Reader is NOT plugged into the Hub, but is plugged into the 1st or 2nd port on the PC proper. As to the results of lsmod:

root@0[jeff]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 185568 6
intel_mch_agp 4624 0
sworks_agp 4384 0
amd_k7_agp 3212 0
ali_agp 3200 0
sis_agp 3204 1
ati_agp 3980 0
nvidia_agp 3484 0
via_agp 3840 0
intel_agp 11164 0
agpgart 17064 10 intel_mch_agp,sworks_agp,amd_k7_agp,ali_agp,sis_agp,ati_agp,nvidia_agp,via_agp,intel_agp
parport_pc 26048 1
lp 6700 0
parport 23240 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 11524 0
ipt_limit 1152 2
ipt_state 768 67
ipt_LOG 4608 2
ipt_REJECT 3840 2
ip_conntrack_irc 68656 0
ip_conntrack_ftp 69168 0
ip_conntrack 19080 3 ipt_state,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter 1152 1
ip_tables 12544 5 ipt_limit,ipt_state,ipt_LOG,ipt_REJECT,iptable_filter
af_packet 11912 0
ds 8964 0
yenta_socket 12288 0
pcmcia_core 36292 2 ds,yenta_socket
8250 11488 0
serial_core 13824 1 8250
nls_cp437 4608 0
nls_iso8859_1 3072 0
ntfs 99308 0
sis900 12548 0
crc32 3200 1 sis900
snd_intel8x0 20524 1
snd_ac97_codec 47236 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 37160 0
snd_mixer_oss 12032 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 57480 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 14340 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 5128 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 1792 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 3584 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 13348 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 3976 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 30820 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 3936 1 snd
nvidia 4591572 12
sg 21792 0
usblp 7808 0
tsdev 3328 0
joydev 5696 0
evdev 4864 0
usbhid 24128 0
thermal 6800 0
processor 8880 1 thermal
fan 1548 0
button 2840 0
battery 5900 0
ac 1804 0
floppy 44112 0
uhci_hcd 22928 0
ohci_hcd 14980 0
root@0[jeff]#

Note the uhci and ohci are referenced at the end. From the cat command I get:

root@0[jeff]# cat /var/log/messages
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 syslogd 1.4.1#15: restart.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: klogd 1.4.1#15, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.7
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Loaded 20926 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.7.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.6.7.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not ena
bled.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Linux version 2.6.7 (root@mepis2800) (gcc version
3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-7)) #1 Wed Aug 18 09:36:46 EDT 2004
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (
usable)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e8000 - 00000000000ea000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (
usable)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff8000 (
ACPI data)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002fff8000 - 0000000030000000 (
ACPI NVS)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (
reserved)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: 767MB LOWMEM available.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 196592
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Normal zone: 192496 pages, LIFO batch:16
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: DMI 2.3 present.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI
) @ 0x000fa250
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: RSDT (v001 AMIINT SiS740XX 0x00001000 MSFT
0x0100000b) @ 0x2fff0000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: FADT (v001 AMIINT SiS740XX 0x00000011 MSFT
0x0100000b) @ 0x2fff0030
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: MADT (v001 AMIINT SiS740XX 0x00001000 MSFT
0x0100000b) @ 0x2fff00c0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: DSDT (v001 SiS 740 0x00000100 MSFT
0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Built 1 zonelists
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdb1 nomce psmouse
.proto=imps quiet splash=verbose vga=791
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: bootsplash: verbose mode.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 byt
es)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Detected 2083.552 MHz processor.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Using tsc for high-res timesource
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Memory: 776056k/786368k available (2235k kernel c
ode, 9552k reserved, 542k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Checking if this processor honours the WP bit eve
n in supervisor mode... Ok.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 4128.76 BogoMIPS
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7
, 524288 bytes)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6,
262144 bytes)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 40
96 bytes)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: CPU: CLK_CTL MSR was 6003d22f. Reprogramming to 2
003d22f
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K
(64 bytes/line)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ stepping 01
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... d
one.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (ungzip
failed); looks like an initrd
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Freeing initrd memory: 53k freed
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 16
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb01, las
t bus=2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Uncovering SIS963 that hid as a SIS503 (compatibl
e=0)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Enabling SiS 96x SMBus.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10
*11 12 14 15)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10
11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10
11 12 14 15)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10
11 12 14 15)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10
11 12 14 15)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10
11 12 14 15)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10
11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 *5 7 10
11 12 14 15)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at
0xc00f7170
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0x5f
db, dseg 0xf0000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PnPBIOS: 12 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 12 record
ed by driver
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hub
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 5
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 5
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 5
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 5
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xc0000000, mapped to 0xf0
807000, size 3072k
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pag
es=1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:dcd
0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Initializing Cryptographic API
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: bootsplash 3.1.4-2004/02/19-spock-0.1: looking fo
r picture.... silentjpeg size 33376 bytes, found (1024x768, 21245 bytes, v3).
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device
128x48
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K
size 1024 blocksize
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.0
0alpha2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO mode
s; override with idebus=xx
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:02.5
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: SIS5513: chipset revision 0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: SIS5513: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs l
ater
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: SIS5513: SiS 962/963 MuTIOL IDE UDMA133 controlle
r
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings:
hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings:
hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hda: WDC WD1200JB-00FUA0, ATA DISK drive
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdb: Maxtor 52049H4, ATA DISK drive
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdc: CD-ROM Drive/F5E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdd: GENERIC DVD RW 4XMax, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hda: max request size: 1024KiB
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hda: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cach
e, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hda: hda1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdb: max request size: 128KiB
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdb: 40020624 sectors (20490 MB) w/2048KiB Cache,
CHS=39703/16/63, UDMA(100)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33
)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192k
B Cache, UDMA(33)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialize
d
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: EHCI Host Controller
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: irq 5, pci mem f0b31000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: new USB bus registered, as
signed bus number 1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ehci_hcd 0000:00:03.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00
, driver 2004-May-10
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Failed to disable AUX port, but continuing anyway
... Is this a SiS?
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: If AUX port is really absent please use the 'i804
2.noaux' option.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/se
rio0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64K
bytes
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 b
ind 65536)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 15
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image start
ing at 0.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mod
e.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address
2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devic
es
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Vendor: Maxtor 2 Model: F040L0 Rev:
0 0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI
SCSI revision: 02
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 80293248 512-byte hdwr sectors (
41110 MB)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: sda: sda1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: OHCI Host Controller
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: irq 5, pci mem f0b33000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.0: new USB bus registered, as
signed bus number 2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: OHCI Host Controller
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: irq 5, pci mem f0b35000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:03.1: new USB bus registered, as
signed bus number 3
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2
.2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.7
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usb 2-2: new low speed USB device using address 2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft W
ireless Intellimouse Explorer?? 1.0A] on usb-0000:00:03.0-2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core d
river
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using address
3
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address
2
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectio
nal printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x1072
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usblp
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Dev
ice Class driver
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using address
3
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usb 3-3: new full speed USB device using address
4
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 3-3:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 3-3:1.0: 4 ports detected
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
0, lun 0, type 0
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Adding 1024120k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:1 ex
tents:1
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: EXT3 FS on hdb1, internal journal
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Modu
le 1.0-6111 Tue Jul 27 07:55:38 PDT 2004
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49521 usecs
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: intel8x0: clocking to 48000
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: sis900.c: v1.08.07 11/02/2003
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: eth0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at ad
dress 1.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as def
ault
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd400, IRQ 5,
00:0a:e6:07:70:52.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda
1.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda
1.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NTFS driver 2.1.14 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 por
ts, IRQ sharing disabled
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: EXT3 FS on hdb3, internal journal
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mod
e.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 17
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (6143 buckets, 49144 max
) - 296 bytes per conntrack
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda
1.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda
1.
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: eth0: Media Link On 100mbps full-duplex
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
Nov 20 12:06:32 mepis1 kernel: parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
Nov 20 12:06:32 mepis1 kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, dma 3
[PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP,DMA]
Nov 20 12:06:32 mepis1 kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
Nov 20 12:06:32 mepis1 kernel: lp0: console ready
Nov 20 12:06:33 mepis1 kernel: ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
Nov 20 12:06:36 mepis1 xfs: ignoring font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfo
nt-conf.d/dirs/TrueType (unreadable)
Nov 20 12:06:36 mepis1 xfs: ignoring font path element /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfo
nt-conf.d/dirs/CID (unreadable)
Nov 20 12:06:37 mepis1 kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Detected SiS 746 chipset
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memor
y: 690M
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 000
0:00:00.0.
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 in
to 8x mode
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: SiS delay workaround: giving bridge time
to recover.
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 in to 8x mode
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 000 0:00:00.0.
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 in to 8x mode
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: SiS delay workaround: giving bridge time to recover.
Nov 20 12:06:38 mepis1 kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 in to 8x mode
Nov 20 12:07:20 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2269): starting (version 2.6.4), pid 2269 us er 'jeff'
Nov 20 12:07:21 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2269): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/g conf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Nov 20 12:07:21 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2269): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home /jeff/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Nov 20 12:07:21 mepis1 gconfd (jeff-2269): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/g conf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Nov 20 12:07:25 mepis1 kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 10
Nov 20 12:07:25 mepis1 kernel: Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c039f0c0(lo )
Nov 20 12:07:25 mepis1 kernel: IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
root@0[jeff]#

I noticed:

Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 20 12:06:31 mepis1 kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.

but is that referencing my external hard drive? There are several other USB references further down, but I'm clueless.
Thanks to everyone trying to help, I'm learning more and more, but I still have a long way to go;)
Jeff

Ok, count me as no USB wizard, but the following got me going on an [unnamed] RPM-based distribution:

As an experiment, I added:?? (sorry about the spacing)
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/flash1 vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/flash2 vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
/dev/sde1 /mnt/flash3 vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

to the /etc/fstab file and created flash, flash1, flash2 and flash3 directories under /mnt/

As a part of the process, I also wrote:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

/dev/sda2 /mnt/flash1 vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

/dev/sda3 /mnt/flash2 vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

/dev/sda4 /mnt/flash3 vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

to the etc/fstab file (not at the same time) and, in each case attempted to mount the CF reader at various mount points.

This has been some time ago, so I don't remember which one actually worked, but I know for certain that one of the above methods did get me going at the time.

If that doesn't help, I'd certainly be interested in seeing suggestions from others--and mention that the SDDR-88 works perfectly, for about 19 bucks.
As old as the '05 is, I do wonder if it's early enough in SanDisk's line to be somewhat problematic with Real Operating Systems.
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