Re: HOWTO: FC2 USB Multicard Reader

From: Jeff Vian (jvian10_at_charter.net)
Date: 06/13/04

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    Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:33:50 -0500
To: Dave Ulrick <d-ulrick@niu.edu>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    Dave Ulrick wrote:

    >On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, William Hooper wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >>Robert Dale said:
    >>
    >>
    >>>This is to help anyone trying to get their USB multicard reader working in
    >>>Fedora Core 2.
    >>>
    >>>First, you must recompile the scsi module with "Probe all LUNs".
    >>>
    >>>
    >>No you don't. It is a module option.
    >>
    >>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110653
    >>
    >>Also, don't forget to report your info upstream so that device can be whitelisted.
    >>
    >>http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-May/msg00387.html
    >>
    >>
    >
    >For some reason, I've never been able to get the 'options scsi_mod
    >max_scsi_luns=8' option to work. I get this message when I add it to
    >/etc/modprobe.conf:
    >
    >scsi_mod: Unknown parameter `max_scsi_luns'
    >
    >However, I've gotten good results from a three-line script that
    >coaxes Linux to recognize the additional LUNs on my Y-E media reader:
    >
    >echo >/proc/scsi/scsi "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 1"
    >echo >/proc/scsi/scsi "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 2"
    >echo >/proc/scsi/scsi "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 3"
    >
    >Here's my /proc/scsi/scsi after running the script:
    >
    >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
    > Vendor: Y-E DATA Model: CF Card Reader Rev: 1.03
    > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 01
    > Vendor: Y-E DATA Model: SM Card Reader Rev: 1.03
    > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 02
    > Vendor: Y-E DATA Model: MS Card Reader Rev: 1.03
    > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    >Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 03
    > Vendor: Y-E DATA Model: SD Card Reader Rev: 1.03
    > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    >
    >The '0 0 0' in each of the lines of my script stands for scsi0, channel 0,
    >ID 0. The last of the four numbers is the LUN number. I run my script
    >from /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
    >
    >Dave
    >
    someone else has said that with the 2.6 kernel you should use "max_luns"
    in /etc/modprobe.conf.

    >
    > 

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