[ale] sandisk smartmedia card via a USB reader under Fedora

[Yu, Jerry]

I had this nagging problem. the card/reader shows up as sda1. I can mount it and start to copy files off it. Then it will hang at random place (after 1 or 6 photos, each 400K).  A few minutes timed out. /dev/sda1 no longer accessible. At the same time, the same smartmedia card shows up as sdb1 (seen from 'dmesg') !  If I mount this new 'sdb1', it will work flawless from that point on. what gives?!

USB on this box is a little messy.  I have two USB1.1 ports built in on a asus P4b motherboard with two extra usb2.0 ports on a PCI usb card. The USB2.0 reader is plugged into one of the added USB2.0 ports. OS is Fedora  Core 2 with all patches up-2-date on a PII 400 / 256M PC100 SDRAM.

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