[AGAIN] Problems with pcmcia & smartmedia

Jeremie Le Hen jeremie at le-hen.org
Sat Aug 27 16:11:36 GMT 2005


Hi,

> I'm re-sending the following message for help.
> In a nutshell I put the smartmedia card of my digital camera into a pcmcia 
> adapter which is easily configured both by win xp and linux, while under 
> freebsd 5.4 I cannot see it as a mass storage drive (see below).
> 
> Any suggestion?
> Where can I find pieces of documentation about this subject, i.e., configuring 
> removable mass storage in pccards?
> 
> Ciao
> Vittorio   
> 
> ----------  Messaggio inoltrato  ----------
> 
> Subject: Problems withpcmcia & smartmedia
> Date: 23:00, giovedì 18 agosto 2005
> From: vittorio <vdemart1 at tin.it>
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> 
> When I insert my pccard (smartmedia adapter pcmcia - hama) freebsd 5.4
>  doesn't seem to recognize it as a storage device. In fact /var/log/messages
>  says: ..................................................................
> Aug 18 19:33:03 vittorio kernel: pccard0: Allocation failed for cfe 0
> Aug 18 19:33:03 vittorio kernel: ata2: <            > at port 0x2050-0x205f
> irq 11 function 0 config 1 on pccard0
> ..................................................................
> 
> The same smartmedia inside the Olympus camera and connected via usb is
>  instead happily seen as a scsi device.

Use the umass(4) device for this, this usually works pretty well.
Check src/sys/conf/NOTES for dependancies.

Regards,
-- 
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >


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