[Gllug] Camera problems. (USB mass storage device)

[Peter Adamson]

Dylan wrote:

>On Sunday 31 August 2003 21:30, Ian Norton wrote:
>  
>
>>On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 07:43:31PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Sunday 31 August 2003 18:54, Peter Adamson wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hmm I'm having a little bit of trouble getting a new digital camera to
>>>>work.
>>>>
>>>>It's a Kyocera finecam s5.
>>>>
>>>>It's supposed to be a USB storage device.
>>>>I've already got an MP3 player which acts a a USB mass storage device.,
>>>>that I've already configured,
>>>>so usbdevfs is mounted etc.
>>>>
>>>>I've put the camera into the MP3 players socket, guessing I could just
>>>>mount the camera like I do my MP3 player.
>>>>but I get:
>>>>
>>>>[paga at localhost paga]$ mount /mnt/mp3/
>>>>mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
>>>>[paga at localhost paga]$
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>The device assigned isn't dependent on the USB socket you use. If you
>>>look at the system messages (likely on console 10 [press Alt-Ctrl-F10,
>>>then Alt-F7 to go back to the GUI]) then it'll tell you what sd? it's on.
>>>I'd try /dev/sdb1 first...
>>>      
>>>
>>when u insert a usb mass storage device, it comes up as the next available
>>scsi disk,
>>    
>>
>
>Well, not always... I have a card reader which came up (on a new install) as 
>sdb even though there was no existing sda. My digicam then turned up as sdc, 
>evem without the card reader attached. Today, when I plugged a friends cam in 
>it decided to be sda. So who knows, in practise, what is going to happen.
>
>Dylan
>
>  
>
I have used the sg_scan program, and that is only reporting my SCSI 
emulated cd burner.
Hmpf.
I would assume it has to show up on this thing before it can be mounted.

Cheers,
Peter


-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at linux.co.uk
http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug