Comment 193 for bug 53923

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But this is for Texas Instruments card readers, not USB ones. Texas
Instruments ones tend to be what's integrated in the side of a laptop.

TG Browning wrote:
> 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).
>
> Browning>>>
> 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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