> i just bought a store-brand one at Best Buy at the local shop, internal 3.5" > USB dongle that plugs into the motherboard header. I think it's a 7-in-1 > (or is it up to 14-in-1???) > > Works well, but the devfs has a little trick that if you slip in a USB drive > after bootup, you have to write 0 bytes to the devname to have it recognize > slices and partitions... might be easier to restart devfs or something..
Ok, check, I get it - "be patient, and we're fixing the usb stack, already". I was just looking for a solution for *this* week. I've ran current before, but given all the traffic and arguing over usb2 lately, I'm sure not going to install it just to get the card reader going on my *work* desktop, I might as well take a couple days off. Again, not being critical, I just don't like the answers that say, well, obviously, everyone has 10 hours to tweak their system instead of spending $9 on a new reader that works with the old stack. Buying hardware that works has always been a legitimate option - just look at all the people asking about laptops, motherboards, and even NICs. I have personally found very few card readers that reliably detect a card, then allow you to mount and use it on 7.1 without a freeze, or a crash on mount or *after* or *during* unmount (I'm not a reformed ubuntu user, I don't just rip the card out and expect it to work). More typically, however, they just never show a card inserted. I'm going to have to try the "write 0 bytes" trick mentioned, maybe that looks like it will take me from 75% dead readers to 75% working readers. Several of my working readers under 6.3 quit under 7.x. The only brand that I've found to be a slam dunk is "i-rocks" and they don't make an internal. The guys working on usb2 should get a donation of about 50 cases of beer a piece when this is over - anyone want to start a pool? Steve _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
