sony PCI memory stick under red hat 9

[metonymy]

Can anyone please point me at how to get red hat 9 to see a sony pci memory
stick drive?

TIA

[Steve Martin]

metonymy wrote:

> Can anyone please point me at how to get red hat 9 to see a sony pci memory
> stick drive?

Can't say for sure for that particular camera. However, I've
successfully read the
stick from our workplace's digital camera by using usb-storage. Once you
modprobe the usb-storage module, plug the hardware into the USB port, and
the contents of the stick should show up on device /dev/sda1. (Of course,
you'll need to mount /dev/sda1 somewhere in order to be able to read it.)

Hope this helps.

[Frantisek Rysanek]

> Can anyone please point me at how to get red hat 9 to see a sony pci

> memory stick drive?
>

err... so you have a board that plugs into PCI, and presents a connector
for the memory stick, perhaps on a 5,25"-slot front panel, or on a desktop
device attached to the PCI card's rear plate - is that right?

If it's basically a PCI device, please start by sending us a listing of 'lspci'
from your computer with the board physically installed.

From there on, we might be able to say more.

I confirm that USB-storage is an option, if both your PC and your camera
have a USB port and if the relevant gods had a good sleep last night.

Frank Rysanek

[Michael W. Cocke]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 19:26:46 -0500, "metonymy" <metonymy@newsguy.com>
wrote:

>Can anyone please point me at how to get red hat 9 to see a sony pci memory
>stick drive?
>
>TIA
>

There are actually 2 "sony memory stick drives" - With or without
"magic gate technology". magic Gate is Sony's attempt to implement
DRM, and accessing a magic gate stick requires special drivers/code
that Sony has no intention of releasing - you need to use the really
crappy windows software that they sell you. Standard Sony memory stick
should work like all of the CF etc. drives - it's a filesystem device.
You need to find out what you're trying to do.

I seem to recall that memory sticks w/ magic gate are white and
nongate sticks are blue, or possibly the other way around.

Mike-

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[Sean G Gilley]

"metonymy" <metonymy@newsguy.com> wrote in message news:<biji890156j@enews4.newsguy.com>...

> Can anyone please point me at how to get red hat 9 to see a sony pci memory
> stick drive?

I can't tell you for RH9 specifically. For RH8, I bought a USB reader. After
making sure USB software was in the kernel, I watched the messages file when
trying to mount the memory stick. I had to modify one of the kernel files to get
it to recognize the code that the device/memory stick was returning. Not a big
modification, but just copying a particular section and reinserting it with
the appropriate code in place.

If modifying kernel files isn't your cup of tea, then I can't help.

Sean.