UltraPort Compact Flash Adapter

IBM UltraPort Compact Flash Adapter This is a Compact Flash Card Reader for the IBM UltraPort. It can also be connected to any USB port by using the included cable. Features Compatible with CF I, CF II and MicroDrive cards (3.3V and 5V) Transfer rates up to 900KB/s reading and up to 470KB/s writing UltraPort and USB interfaces User's guide (December 2004) (5,963,717 Bytes)

IBM Partnumbers

IBM FRU PN: 19K4510

Linux driver

The Compact Flash Card Reader is accessable via the USB Mass Storage driver, just like a usual USB memory stick.

Since the USB Mass Storage driver is SCSI based you'll need SCSI support in your kernel. Enable the following options:

Device Drivers → SCSI device support → [M]SCSI device support (CONFIG_SCSI)

Device Drivers → SCSI device support → [M]SCSI disk support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD)

Device Drivers → SCSI device support → [M]SCSI generic support (CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG)

Furthermore, enable USB support:

Device Drivers → USB support → <M>Support for Host-side USB (CONFIG_USB)

USB support → Device Drivers → [*]USB device file system (CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS)

Choose an appropriate USB host driver, one of:

Device Drivers → USB support → <M>ECHI HCD (USB 2.0) support (CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD)

Device Drivers → USB support → <M>UHCI HCD support (CONFIG_USB_UHCI)

Device Drivers → USB support → <M>OHCI HCD support (CONFIG_USB_OHCI)

Finally, enable the USB Mass Storage driver:

Device Drivers → USB support → <M>USB Mass Storage support (CONFIG_USB_STORAGE)

NOTE!

Make sure that the Low Performance USB Block Driver (BLK_DEV_UB) is disabled. It would prevent the whole thing from working correctly.

Compile your kernel with these options (don't forget # depmod -ae) and reboot or just load the relevant modules (scsi, sd_mod, sg, usb, usb-ehci/usb-uhci/usb-ohci, usb-storage). If you didn't already, plug in the card reader and insert a CF card.

Do a # cat /proc/bus/usb/devices to asure yourself that your card reader is recognized by the USB subsystem.

Now also check if the USB Mass Storage driver is working properly by doing a # cat /proc/scsi/scsi.

Usually, your card reader will be associated with /dev/sda and hence it's first (and mostly only partition) will be /dev/sda1. You can check that using the sg3_utils.

You may want to put an entry in your /etc/fstab, i.e. with the above assumtions:

/dev/sda1   /media/cf   auto   noauto,users    0  0

That's it. Your card reader should be working now.

ThinkPads this addon is suitable for

• A20p, A21p, A22p, A30p, A31p
• T20, T21, T22, T23
• X20, X21, X22, X23, X24