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

Peter Adamson mewv29 at dsl.pipex.com
Sun Aug 31 19:23:20 UTC 2003


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, 
>
>ie, if i plug in my creative muvo, it comes up as /dev/sda, if i then unplug it
>and plug in my fujifilm finepix2200 that then comes up as /dev/sdb
>
>i simply have 2 extra /dev/sd* entries in my fstab to deal with this, and mount
>them under /mnt/usb1 and /mnt/usb2 
>
>good luck
>
>Ian
>
>
>  
>
Sadly I've tried that already.

I'm going to let it charge overnight & try again (could be a low power 
thing?)

Cheers,
Peter


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