Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?

[Jiri Slaby]

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,
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faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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