[RndTbl] CF/SD/MMC readers under Linux

Trevor Cordes trevor at tecnopolis.ca
Sun Feb 2 14:04:05 CST 2014


On 2014-02-01 Adam Thompson wrote:
> I've noticed that many USB card readers are non-functional under
> Linux; according to the kernel developers, it's because relatively
> few of them implement the USB removable block storage class
> (protocol) correctly. While there are lots of expensive card readers
> that work with Linux, finding cheap ones is challenging.

I've yet to see a card reader that *didn't* work on my linux box.  Are
you using a new enough linux (like Fedora or Ubuntu instead of
years-behind RHEL/CentOS)?

Ya, the uber-cheap ones seem to work well.  There's a cool mini 28-in-1
one I can get in for around $6.  Your $2 is even better.


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