6-in-1 card reader problems

[zovirl]

I have a 6-in-1 USB card reader which I can't get to work in FC3. I had it working on Mandrake before so I know it works in linux, and I confirmed that it still works in windows. I search the forums & google but nothing I've tried so far has worked.

Everything I read suggests that when I plug it in, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2, etc. should be created automatcially, but on my system they aren't.

Here is the last bit of dmesg after plugging it it:
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 8
scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Model: USB Card Reader Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 8


And this is in /var/log/messages
Dec 12 15:58:51 gimli kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 9
Dec 12 15:58:51 gimli kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec 12 15:58:51 gimli kernel: Vendor: Model: USB Card Reader Rev: 1.01
Dec 12 15:58:51 gimli kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Dec 12 15:58:51 gimli kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Dec 12 15:58:51 gimli scsi.agent[5205]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:10.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/host7/7:0:0:0


Ideas?

[SuperNu]

This might help you out or at least get you pointed in the right direction.

--SN

[imdeemvp]

This can help too: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~ggbaker/personal/cf-linux

[zovirl]

Thanks for the help...I had already come across those before I posted though. Neither helped

[zovirl]

alright I'm getting closer. If I run these the drive shows up:
echo >/proc/scsi/scsi "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0"
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"

I tried adding 'options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=3' to modprobe.conf, thinking that would make it work automatically but I still have to do the add-single-device commands. Ideas?

[zovirl]

ok I figured it out. max_scsi_luns has changed to max_luns. All I needed to do was add 'options scsi_mod max_luns=3' to /etc/modprobe.conf