Re: Fwd: Re: portable usb drive problem

On Saturday 07 July 2007, Alan Stern wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Saturday 07 July 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >On Saturday 07 July 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >>On Friday 06 July 2007, Alan Stern wrote:
>> >>>On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >>>> So the next thing to do is find a wall wart that will add some power
>> >>>> either directly to it, or to the hub its plugged into?  As I'm in the
>> >>>> middle of West Virginia, this should be fun as all we have are
>> >>>> Staples, Ciorcuit City & Radio Shack.  I could probably build one
>> >>>> with an lm317 quicker than I could find on actually made for it. 
>> >>>> Sigh...
>>
>> I kept seeing a modern switchmode wall wart plugged into an extra drop
>> cord that I didn't know what it was supposed to be plugged into, so I
>> chased its output cable down just now and found it unused, and that it was
>> a 5 volt 8 amp supply whose plug fit the alps hub.  So I guess it was the
>> one that was supposed to be powering that Alps 7 port usb-2.0 hub. 
>> Plugging it back in and unplugging the card reader that was generating all
>> the noise from usb-storage, it spun right up, I've mounted it and doing
>> some housekeeping on it now.  I've NDI why the card reader keeps trying to
>> tell the system its 4 scsi drives when it doesn't have a card plugged it.
>
>These card readers work by registering as multiple Logical Units, one
>for each type of memory card.  So if the reader can handle four
>different types of card then it shows up as four different drives.
>
>Don't ask me why they do it this way.  I think it's dumb.

And I'm in violent agreement on that point.  Humm, it actually has 5 slots to 
plug stuff into, but cf is all I've ever used, to write the dd-wrt starter 
image, several times.  I don't pull the card from my camera due to something 
blowing the original card early on, so I bought a 64 megger back when that 
was BIG, and its never been out since.  Its a fat file system when plugged 
into a usb port, complete with the real fat file systems darned bugs.

Thanks, Alan.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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