{"id":50,"date":"2005-08-06T00:04:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2007-06-17T00:23:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T00:23:09","slug":"alauda-mausb-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/archives\/2005\/08\/alauda-mausb-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Alauda MAUSB-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got my hands on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.olympus.co.uk\/consumer\/198_MAUSB-10.htm\">Olympus MAUSB-10<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.olympus.co.uk\/consumer\/images\/CA_AC_AD_Mausb-10_m.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a USB media card reader (2 slots, SmartMedia and XD-Media). It uses a vendor-specific interface and protocol, and is currently unsupported by Linux.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to be slowly developing a driver for this device. The Windows driver shows that the driver is actually for an &#8220;Alauda Enumerator&#8221; chip, maybe manufactured by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratocsystems.com\/\">RATOC<\/a>? I&#8217;m going to be a copycat and call my driver Alauda.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve fired off an email to Olympus requesting technical documentation for the device, but I&#8217;m doubtful that I&#8217;ll get anything &#8211; I&#8217;ll probably have to reverse engineer it from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Some techy info, the device seems to use a combined Control\/Bulk transport, where bulk is used for data transfer and control is used for everything else (get media status, etc). Commands seem to be transmitted via bulk (after control setup) and hopefully they are something standardised e.g. SCSI\/ATA, but I haven&#8217;t had time to investigate this just yet.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone else owns one of these and would be interested in development\/testing, please email me.<\/p>\n<p>I will upload sniffed logs from the Windows driver and an initial protocol analysis sometime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got my hands on an Olympus MAUSB-10: It&#8217;s a USB media card reader (2 slots, SmartMedia and XD-Media). It uses a vendor-specific interface and protocol, and is currently unsupported by Linux. I&#8217;m going to be slowly developing a driver for this device. The Windows driver shows that the driver is actually for an &#8220;Alauda Enumerator&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}