Epson DX6000 Card Reader

Hi,
I've recently bought an Epson DX6000 all in one printer/scanner/copier.

So far I've been pretty fortunate and got a bunch of drivers from epson's site and so I can merrily print and scan on my RH EL4.0 box however.... unfortunately I can't seem to get the memory card reader to work.

When I do dmesg after I power up the printer I get

usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using address 5
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 5 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x082E
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: EPSON Model: Stylus Storage Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 1000448 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 0d 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 1000448 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 0d 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 5

Si I'd assume all should be well however when I cat /etc/fstab the magic USB hotplug auto fstab updater doesn't seem to have done it's magic (it works fine when I plug my camera in - for my camera I get the line

/dev/sdc1 /media/usbdisk vfat pamconsole,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

added to my fstab, it magically creates a mount point and all is tickety boo)

I've tried to do a brute force manual mount "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdisk1" but I get "mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist" reported, which rather seems to conflict with what dmesg is telling me.

I'd appreciate any thoughts and pointers in the right direction,
Cheers,
Fraser
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