USB card readers

[Brooks Davis]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 01:38:40PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2005 at 20:21, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 
> > This gives me the opportunity to comment on the "16 in 1 Cardreader USB
> > 2.0" made by SilverCrest (http://www.mysilvercrest.de/)
> > 
> > I got this cardreader really cheap, but I don't know if I can recommend
> > it. The reason? It only works if the card is already inserted when you
> > attach the reader to an usb connector. Inserting and removing cards
> > while the card reader is attached has no effect.
> 
> I have similar results with the "USB 2.0 Flash Card Reader" by 
> StarTech.com.  It works if the cards are in the device before the 
> device is attached to the laptop.  Inserting and/or removing cards 
> while attached to the laptop does not generate any /var/log/messages 
> entries.

I just purchased a Sabrent 16-in-1 card reader and it seems to work.  It
shows up as four devices.  There's no automatic media detection so you
have to access the device once to get the right device nodes for the
slices to appear, but otherwise it seems to work.

-- Brooks

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