Friday, June 24, 2005

Mounting an 8-in-1 card reader

I'd written this tip down on paper - don't remember the origin.

I recently bought an 8in1 USB card reader. It uses multiple LUNs for the different media. To get all of them registered, edit grub.conf to add the kernel parameter "max_scsi_luns=8". Also add "options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=8" to /etc/modules.conf. Reboot so the new kernel options take effect. Afteryou plug in the USB card reader, you can use the right mouse button on the root window to get a popup menu with a submenu "drives" that contains entries like "memstick", "memstick1", "memstick2", etc. After you picked one of them, it will be mounted and a new icon appears on your desktop.

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