On 16 Nov 2002, Christopher M. Taylor wrote: >Date: 16 Nov 2002 04:52:00 -0500 >From: Christopher M. Taylor <psychocop156@insightbb.com> >To: psyche-list <psyche-list@redhat.com> >Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-TOnxpw4E+d1blNDSYOrU" >List-Id: Discussion of Red Hat Linux 8.0 (Psyche) <psyche-list.redhat.com> >Subject: CF card reader for RH8? > >Hello, >Anyone know of a good quality CF card reader that is compatible with >RedHat 8? I'm not concerned with interface...the HCL seems to be a >little scarce on this subject. The CF reader will be used to process >digital images for a local police evidence, and the Linux machine will >be used to store those photos as evidence, as I feel that Linux will >provide additional security over Windows. Your help would be greatly >appreciated! I've got a "Lexar" USB CF reader from Radio Shack. Cost me about $40 CAD IIRC. I was told by various people that pretty much all CF readers work the same and should "just work(TM)". To be nasty, and test this theory out, I plugged the CF reader in for the first time into the back of my keyboard which has 2 USB ports, the other end connected to an Itanium 2 workstation running developmental ia64 code. To my amazement, the driver was autoloaded, and I merely had to mount the device and copy files from it. My ia64 litmus test worked quite well. ;o) I've tested it on RHL 7.1/7.3/8.0 x86 based systems also with no problems, and no special configuration other than editing /etc/fstab. I created a dir /film, then added an entry to fstab to mount the device there. I'd test it on Alpha also, but USB isn't functional on my Alpha boxes. ;o) Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris OS Systems Engineer XFree86 maintainer Red Hat Inc. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
