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Just a quick memo for me and other who will get this external harddrive/card reader.

This box contains a 60 go (in fact 56) and can read a few memory card : CF I and II, MS, MS Pro, SD, MMC, IBM MicroDrive, RS-MMC, mini-SD, MS Duo and MS Pro Duo.

As I don't want to reboot under Windows each time I want to use it, here is the procedure to have it working under Linux.

You need a few modules :

- SCSI disk support (BLK_DEV_SD)
-> Device Drivers
  -> SCSI device support
    -> SCSI device support (SCSI [=y])
      ->  SCSI disk support

- Qlogic QLA 1240/1x80/1x160 SCSI support (SCSI_QLOGIC_1280)
-> Device Drivers
  -> SCSI device support
    -> SCSI device support (SCSI [=y])
      -> SCSI low-level drivers
        -> Qlogic QLA 1240/1x80/1x160 SCSI support

- USB Mass Storage support (USB_STORAGE)
-> Device Drivers
  -> USB support
    -> Support for Host-side USB (USB [=y])
      -> USB Mass Storage support 

It should be enough. Recompile kernel/modules. Reboot

Plug the two USB connectors (DON'T forget to plugin both if it is not working with only one because of the lack of energy provided by my laptop).
If you try the command lsusb, you should see that :

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0d7d:1470 Phison Electronics Corp.

And in /var/log/kern.org, you should get messages :

Jul  8 16:34:18 zoidberg kernel: usb-storage: scsi cmd done, result=0x0
Jul  8 16:34:18 zoidberg kernel: usb-storage: *** thread sleeping.
Jul  8 16:34:18 zoidberg kernel: SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB)
Jul  8 16:34:18 zoidberg kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through

Then, you should be able to mount the /dev/sdXX (sda1 for me) partition where you want with the command :

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/external

Or add in the /etc/fstab this line :

/dev/sda1	/mnt/external			vfat    rw,user

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