Comment 192 for bug 53923

Andrew,

Sorry if I wasn't clear -- this was NOT a memory stick issue. in point of fact, it was a SanDisk issue that I was referring to and it's flaky as hell, to be honest.

Don't get me wrong -- the people working on it are doing a heck of a good job. The problem (as I see it) is that there are different chip sets out there with odd firmware that doesn't ID itself very well. My experience was with a Secure Digital & Mutlimedia (GE supposedly) USB SanDisk reader. It works. Not great, but it does work if you have it in when the system boots. It occasionally works if you plug it in later, but not always.

Yes, the lspci and other scanning compenents under Ubuntu do see the current diskreader but get messed up, sometimes allowing them to be mounted, sometimes not, and always being a pain in the pratt if you pull the SanDisk. There doesn't seem to be any way to unmount them once they're there.

Please, Andrew, this was NOT a crit of you or the bug reporting and bug killing efforts of the Ubuntu community. Cripes, you guys do a heck of a job considering the complete and total lack of support that most vendors (influenced by Microsoft).

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Andrew Waldram <email address hidden> wrote: Konstaninos and TG Browning....

I'm guessing by MMS you mean Memmory Stick as there is no such card as
MMS.

This is not the same bug, Memory sticks are not yet supported by this
driver

A quick search on the tifm home page shows
Currently in development:

tifm_ms - driver for MemoryStick cards (beta). This driver is not very useful without higher level MemoryStick protocol drivers. These are found in the same svn repository. Their current status:
memstick - card identification driver (beta)
ms_block - legacy MemoryStick storage support (alpha)
mspro_block - MemoryStick Pro storage support (beta, has some problems)
Early stages of development:

So the fact that the memmory stick is detected shows the driver is working to its present limit.

If you had read through this bug report you would also have found that I
have mentioned REPEATEDLY that this drive only supports SD cards at
present.

If you want Memmory Stick support I'd sugest you pop across to Belios's
(the developer) homepage and cross his palm with silver or donate a MS
card for testing.

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tifm: Texas Instruments Card reader not working
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