On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 10:37:00 +0200 (CEST)
Laurent FAILLIE <l_faillie@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  --- Thomas Runge <coto@core.de> a =E9crit=A0: > On Thu,
...
> > But the writer of above mail indeed means a
> > smartmedia card which
> > can get read via a USB reader, almost all of them
> > recognized and
>=20
> Oups, yes, you're right : it's SMARTMEDIA and not
> SMARTCARD, sorry.
>=20
> > supported by NetBSD. It appears as an atapi disk to
> > the operating
> > system (sd(4)).
>=20
> Yes, but my machine is too old to have USB, so I use a

the pci and pcmcia usb cards all work fine for me, even the usb 2.0 cards.
Just because it's not built in, doesn't mean that you can't upgrade it.
Having usb available is good for lots of other things too, e.g. usb 2.0
external hard disks are great for backups.

> PCMCIA reader. Does it works as well ?
>=20

I have an olympus pcmcia smartmedia reader that works great. Plug it in and
the pcmcia card looks like a ide controller. Then insert the smart media
card into the slot in the pcmcia card and a new wd device gets attached.
I've used my extensively and I've only had the system get hung once on a
detach. It's a very robust solution, so long as you remember to unmount the
filesystem before ejecting the card. 8-)

Of course, this pcmcia card costs about three times as much as a cheap, but
usable, usb reader that can read more than one format.=20

--=20
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing
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