Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:30:35AM -0700, William R. Ward wrote: > > Also, I bought an Olympus Camedia D-360L digital camera. I want to > > upload images into the Thinkpad. There are two ways: RS-232 or > > SmartMedia. I tried with several different packages to get the RS-232 > > interface to work, and couldn't get any results. But it works like a > > charm with the Windows software they include, of course. > > > > The ADI SmartMedia/PCMCIA card I bought doesn't seem to be recognized > > at all (the computer doesn't even realize it's been plugged in). > > Should I just take it back for a refund? What other brands are there > > that you would recommend instead? Or is there something else I can > > try to make this one work? > > I am not sure if I have the same smartmedia pcmcia adaptor as you. But > the one I have works beautifully, I insert the pcmcia card, then the > smartmedia card. Hear the two beeps (you get no beep until the smarmedia > card is inserted) then mount the card to some mountpoint. It appears as > an IDE interface to a dos formatted partition. > One wierdness though, twice I have somehow destroyed the smartmedia > such that it no longer is formatted or registers as a proper block > device. I have no idea why, and it makes me somewhat nervouse. But other > than that minor (?) issue, all is well. > Anyone else have this problem with smartmedia in general? or is it just > me?
Insert the PCMCIA card without a SmartMedia card in it? I hadn't thought of that. I have been inserting the card with SmartMedia already in it. Another thing that may be an issue is that my SmartMedia card came pre-formatted from Olympus. Do I need to reformat it, to make it work? How can I reformat it if the computer doesn't even notice that it's there? I saw instructions on the web somewhere that involved running a format command using /dev/mem0a0 or something like that, but there is no such device in my /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to do it. Maybe it's called something else under Debian? I'm kind of new to the whole PCMCIA thing. I know the PCMCIA port works, because I have a 3COM ethernet/modem card which works perfectly. If it matters, I'm running kernel version 2.2.18pre1, custom compilation (and corresponding custom pcmcia-cs package), with Debian "stable". --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."-Groucho Marx
