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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I found two sites carrying IDE memory card readers for multiple types of 
memory cards, for $54.  One of them required Win98, the other would work 
with DOS (but they were out of stock).  They are ATAPI.  Does this mean 
you could also mount them like a CD-ROM drive under linux?  The device 
fits into a bay (3.5 or 5.25").

It would be a lot cheaper to use a USB kernel with BL2, if that would 
work.  We got a USB mouse working with a USB kernel in the full SW81 (but 
it worked just as well with a PS/2 adaptor and the regular kernel for 
BL2).  Other than change kernels, what is required to use a USB camera 
with linux?  Or a USB anything?  (I know the USB scanner would need SANE).

For $54 I could buy a nice used serial Olympus camera.

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, James Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> > > Some of the new ones use CF cards (which can be read
> > > on a laptop via a cheap CF-PCMCIA sleeve).  BL3 does
> > > not currently have a PCMCIA module for reading CF
> > > cards, but it would be a lot easier to add than USB
> > > (and it could be used on any laptop with a PCMCIA slot).
> > > I believe many digital cameras store pictures as jpegs
> > > (which BL3 is currently able to display).
> >
> > How would one use one of these cameras with a desktop computer and BL?
> > Are there ways to add card readers for other types of memory cards?
>
> You don't really use the camera itself: you use a removable memory card
> (the compact flash type in Steven's example). You insert the removable
> memory card that contains the photos into a device that accepts such
> cards, which in turn is hooked to your computer. Most of these "multi-card
> readers" (they read several different types like secure digital, multi
> media, etc) are made to connect via USB. I think some internal multi card
> readers hook to an IDE cable though. In that case, the stock BL3 kernel
> should work. But those internal multi card readers are not hot-pluggable:
> at the least, they would require manual mounting/umounting to be able to
> deal with media insertion and extraction while the machine is running. I
> recall seeing somewhere PCMCIA multi card readers as well, btw.
>
> James
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