I need Card Reader help

Update,

I have an sda1 in my Mount Partitions program. However, it says it cannot find my card. Any ideas?

From,
Jacob - an ExpandGames Developer

i CANT HELP WITH GETTING YOUR PRESENT CARD READER TO WORK BUT i CAN TELL YOU THAT i USE A pny sd/mmc CARD READER AND IT WORK;S IN VER 2004 THROUGH VER 3.3.3 OF mEPIS.
hOPE THIS WILL HELP!

No, that doesn't help. I am using an SD card in a multicard reader

From,
Jacob - an ExpandGames Developer

I think you are getting no help with this issue because you don't provide any information. We cannot guess at what your using or what your installing on or what version your working with. Just saying it dosen't work does not help. Example: I have a card reader it does not work.(Do you think you can figure out the problem?)

The problem being that I do not know what information needs to be provided. I have 4 USB ports, the card reader is plugged into one of 'em.

From,
Jacob - an ExpandGames Developer

Jacob, you have indicated that you are using Mepis 3.3.1, but you have not given us any info on the HARDWARE. What type of computer are you connecting to? Is this a desktop or laptop with the 23-in-1 card plugged into a PCMCIA slot? That sort of stuff. Much of the information that you provide us may not actually enter into the picture, but it's better to have more info (that we can ignore) that for you or we to guess (and ask more annoying questions)

Do you have any brand or model info on the "23-in-1 card", what type of SD card are you trying to mount (and do you know how it's formatted)? What other "stuff" do you have plugged into the USB ports; and do they work (do they work when the new card ISN'T plugged in); are they other "drives" or some other type of hardware, like a mouse?

My limited understanding of how USB works is that the drive should simply become an extension of the USB interface; i.e. you used to have "4 USB ports", now you have (potentially) "26 USB ports" (4+23-1). If that's the case, then it's the thing sticking in the drive that is the problem.

Jon

I have a Neodio Technologies Corp. card. It has 4 slots that fits 23 different cards.

Let me say that I've found a solution that should work for most multicard readers. Someone posted a script that I got to load a startup that made mount points for each slot. The mounts work perfectly, and it has become a permanent part of my system.

The "someone" mentioned above (who is "craftbrewer") says he/she (whatever he/she is) "tried unsuccessfully to put it in /etc/init.d/ with symlinks to the /etc/rc* directories". I have actually been able to do this, and now it starts up every boot, making mount points automatically. Place the symbolic link in the /etc/rc5.d/ folder. BE SURE to have "S99"at the beginning of the name of the symbolic link. This will make it start up as one of the last programs when booting.

His post:
http://www.mepis.org/node/6284 (Reply right under the first post)

From,
Jacob - an ExpandGames Developer

Thanks for the follow up Jacob (and craftbrewer). Yes, putting a symbolic link:

cd /etc/rc5.d
ln -s ../init.d/usbmcr-auto.sh S99usbmcr-auto.sh

will allow the script to be autostarted.

I too have one of these cards, but it's on another of my older systems. I'll try your technique on it later

Jon

Hi guys,

I have a pair of machines running Mepis 3.3.1 currently. I'm unable to get my card reader to work on either of them. One, my laptop, is a TOshiba P25-s507 (which has an SD card slot already in it- I know that doesn't work). My desktop box is an AMD 2400.

I've followed the directions here to create the file, as well as the symlink- but it still seems that I can't get anywhere. I know that USB is working (I have a 40GB Firelite drive that attaches as /mnt/sda1 without fail) and I know that the card reader is working (plug it into the girlfriend's XP box and it fires right up.)

I just can't seem to get it to work in linux.

Bear in mind, I'm slightly more than a newbie, but hampered by a lot of Windows admin experience. Give me directions or more places to search (google and I are old friends) so I can try and get this working, please.

Thanks,
Roger