mounting CF disks from an HP printer port

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 00:17:56 UTC 2007


On Nov 24, 2007 3:39 PM, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 09:17 -0800, Les wrote:
> > Hi, everyone,
> >       I have a problem with mounting CF disks via a printer, an HP Photosmart
> > 1215 with the disk slot in the side.  It used to work.  Hald is running,
> > the printer is found by CUPS, but the CF's don't mount.  I looked to see
> > if I could find an error message, but didn't see one.  The printer shows
> > a green LED when it recognizes the disk, and that appears.
> >
> >       In the past inserting the card would bring up an icon automatically.
> >
> >       I don't remember doing anything at all to get this to work before.
> > Where should I look and what should I look for?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Les H
> >
> > Here is the content of lsusb
> > Bus 005 Device 003: ID 059b:007e Iomega Corp.
> > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 002 Device 014: ID 03f0:3202 Hewlett-Packard
> > Bus 002 Device 013: ID 0518:0001 EzKEY Corp.
> > Bus 002 Device 012: ID 0451:2046 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2046 Hub
> > Bus 002 Device 011: ID 0451:2046 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2046 Hub
> > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> >
> >
> >
> > Here is the content of lspci:
> > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM
> > Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02)
> > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller
> > (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
> > UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
> > UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
> > UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB
> > UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
> > 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2
> > EHCI Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2)
> > 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC
> > Interface Bridge (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE
> > Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller
> > (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus
> > Controller (rev 02)
> > 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
> > (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
> > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX
> > 5200] (rev a1)
> > 02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
> > Controller (rev 46)
> > 02:04.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02)
> > 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562EZ 10/100 Ethernet
> > Controller (rev 01)
> >
> >
> I know it is bad form to reply to your own message, but anyway....
>         I couldn't find any information to assist me with this issue, so I
> finally just put one of those cheap "card reader" things on USB and
> bingo, the CF's automounted and I was able to copy the files and use
> them.  Not the perfect solution, but it got me going again.
>
> Regards,
> Les H

Do you have hplip and hplip-gui installed?




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