Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:56:44 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: digital camera Message-ID: <15120.13484.96225.821341@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20010526224351.G32517-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> References: <15109.50703.63762.224928@guru.mired.org> <20010526224351.G32517-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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RAndrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> types: > On Fri, 18 May 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I don't know about MemoryStick, but SmartMedia is a nightmare. The > > interface is proprietary, and ugly. You write magic values to sector > > zero to make blocks appear in sector 1, or some such. That it uses > > SmartMedia instead of CompactFlash is one of my few problems with my > > Olympus. That they gave me a SmartMedia->Floppy disk adaptor doesn't > > really help much. > I don't know why you say SmartMedia is proprietary. The media itself is Because none of the three or four people I found working on drivers knew about this: > The spec for this is available from: > http://www.ssfdc.or.jp/spec/index_e.htm Or at least, I assume that's the layer that documents how you go about reading blocks off the device, which is what they were all trying to figure out by reverse engineering the devices they had. > I use a "FujiFilm Image Memory Card Reader, model SM-R1", which works > fairly well under FreeBSD (I'm using 4.3-R). The first one I tried - Sandisk, because the CF Sandisk reader was reported as working - didn't work at all. Got any hints on where I can find one of these things? Do you happen to know if the SM-R2 - which is what Fuji seems to be selling now - will also work? Thanx, <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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