In message <Pine.GSO.4.33.0211142305320.13930-100000@math.rice.edu>, Richard Ra
uch writes:
>I've tried inserting the SmartMedia card both ways.  There is no sign from
>NetBSD that the OS even knows that the card is present.

Sounds like the reader isn't working.

>The camera is an Olympus 360D, FWIW.  The reader is Belkin's "USB 8-in-1
>Media Reader & Writer".  (I seem to recall that Olympus claimed to have
>some special format that they used for one of their imaging modes and
>suggested (but didn't require, I think) reformatting SmartMedia cards with
>the camera prior to use, to get maximum use.)

I haven't used that one.

>Has anyone used a USB reader/writer on NetBSD with Olympus 360D SmartMedia
>cards?  Or has anyone used the Belkin "8-in-1" with any SmartMedia?

Unfortunately, no, but I *CAN* say that I've used other SmartMedia with the
media reader I use, and it works.

FWIW, the reader I use is a "mere" 5-in-one which does MMC/SD, CF, and
SmartMedia.  (The "5th" format is MicroDrive.)

-s