Zling Photo Wallet ================== v. 7.6.2006 (C) Jens Wilke 2005, 2006 The Zling Photo Wallet is a 5 GB USB Storage Device with Card Reader. Zling says, it works with linux, but doesn't say how. The first two, i got, were broken. So i didn't know if i was wrong or the drives. Don't be confused, that fdisk shows a curios partition tbale for the hard drive. So, how to recognize, if it works fine and how to handle it? The Kernel needs the following parameters set CONFIG_SCSI CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN CONFIG_USB CONFIG_USB_STORAGE CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD CONFIG_USB_STORAGE BLK_DEV_UB must not be set. If dmesg points out something like: usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Zling Model: Photo Wallet Rev: 1.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 9767520 512-byte hdwr sectors (5001 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 9767520 512-byte hdwr sectors (5001 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete then you probably have not set CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN Anyway, in this case, the hard drive can be accesed by mounting /dev/sda (without partitition number) If CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is set, dmesg points out something like: sb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 7 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Zling Model: Photo Wallet Rev: 1.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 9767520 512-byte hdwr sectors (5001 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 9767520 512-byte hdwr sectors (5001 MB) sda: assuming Write Enabled sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: unknown partition table Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 Vendor: Zling Model: Photo Wallet Rev: 1.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0 Vendor: Zling Model: Photo Wallet Rev: 1.05 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdc: 1023120 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB) sdc: assuming Write Enabled sdc: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 1023120 512-byte hdwr sectors (524 MB) sdc: assuming Write Enabled sdc: assuming drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 2, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete Just mount /dev/sdb1 (CF) or /dev/sdc1 (SD/MM) to access cards that are pluged into the Card Reader.