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Date:      Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:01 +0000
From:      William Ward <wardd@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SanDisk USB works?
Message-ID:  <20010815091501.A1508@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <15226.19737.869882.771667@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:21:13AM -0500
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:21:13AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> William Ward <wardd@d1c47d61.gw206.dsl.airmail.net> types:
> > No problem.  Is there another SDDR that accepts the came media as the
> > SDDR-09?
> 
> Not that I know of, but other manufacturers readers work fine. The
> Fujifilm SM-R1 and SM-R2 both work with smartmedia, and someone
> mentioned an inexpensive one on -questions as well. The Fujifilm unit
> requires a software eject before you can take the card out of the
> reader.

Thanks, Mike!  This is great info!  I'm going to get one of these today.
Can the FreeBSD driver do the software eject?  I can use cdcontrol to 
eject SuperFloppies.  Same thing?

> > > The SanDisk readers reported to work are the SDDR-31 and SDDR-05a. The
> > > SDDR-09-01 and SDDR-05 are known not to work.
> > Where is the description for this thing?  Hell!  I'll just *make* it
> > work if that's how it is.
> 
> You need to find out what the protocol is, and write the
> driver. Probably easier to sell it to a Windows users and get a reader
> that uses one of the supported protocols.

From the bits and pieces it looks like it is a lot like the SDDR-31
and has a set of either ATAPI or SCSI commands to control it.
There is an example implementation in that other free operating
system.

/William

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