Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:58:55 +0100 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? |
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Pierre Ossman napsal(a): > Werner LEMBERG wrote: >> Folks, >> >> >> my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop has both a Ricoh R5C822 host adapter (for >> SD, MMC, etc.) and a Ricoh R5C592 host adapter for memory sticks. >> >> While the former works just fine, it seems to me that the latter >> hasn't any support. Indeed, inserting a Sony MSA-128A memory stick >> causes no reaction whatsoever. Searching with google, I haven't found >> anything related to this chip; looking into the kernel source code >> wasn't successful either. >> >> Can you please shed some light on the current situation? I'm using >> kernel 2.6.20. >> > > Memory stick is completely unsupported. We haven't got any specs for neither the > the host controllers or the protocol. So I would guess it would be quite some > time before memorystick is supported directly by Linux.
There is an experimental out-of-the-tree ricoh driver. I don't know if your reader is supported, you can give it a try and report back. Make sure, you have backed your data up. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117123096427193&w=2
regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E
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