Quote Originally Posted by fingers99
5. I don't think anyone has got SanDisk stuff to work in Linux. It's horrible, nasty, nasty stuff: it doesn't appear to be fully standards compliant. Try borrowing almost anything else. FWIW, I use a Zio reader which works fine with Maxwell and (opens camera) eFilm CF cards (and whatever comes as stock with Canon Ixus 3s.
Some people at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/ have reported success with some of SanDisk's readers.
Cuddles: What is the usb ID of your reader ? (should be visible somewhere in /var/log/messages)