This is puzzling me. I have used smart media cards from my olympus camera not only to read in photos, but also to transfer data. THe card reader is a cheap and simple "PCline" blue thing plugged into the USB. All well and good. Then I tried a "disgo" - but got mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Meanwhile a different camera has SD cards. So I got the equivalent reader for SD cards. They also work fine. Still no problem.
Now I plug in the smart media card reader again, and suddenly all the cards that I have used only two weeks ago are unreadable. They all give mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Seems to me that one of four things can have caused this. 1 The smart card reader has coincidentally gone wrong just when it was not used for two weeks. 2 The "disgo" somehow caused a change of setup or hardware somewhere. 3 The SD card reader somehow caused a change. (It still works, so the hardware and cable would seemm to be ok) 4 The latest update I did to sid during this period has altered the modules so that they can only read SD and not smart media. Or what?... Any insights, please. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
