[Sderby] Mounting a digital camera

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David

Thanks for your input. I suspect I have been an idiot and not set up SCSI
emulation properly. I sent a more detailed note to Mike's email.

Andre
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bottrill" <david.bottrill@ntlworld.com>
To: "sderby" <sderby@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 31, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Sderby] Mounting a digital camera


> On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 15:59, Mini Mike wrote:
> > Assuming you have no other SCSI devices or devices like CDwriters/USB
storage,
> > etc using SCSI emulation, it will probably be /dev/sda.
> >
> > If you look in KDE Control Center, under Information > Available
hardware >
> > Disks, you should see it.  Look at the details and it should have the
device
> > file in there.
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> > On Monday 30 December 2002 20:47, andre.hefer@avhservices.co.uk wrote:
> > > David or Ashley
> > >
> > > What do I have to do to get Suse 8.0 to see my digital camera? I have
> > > ensured that the USB port is functional and Suse is reporting the
camera's
> > > compact flash as a "disk". I presume that I have to mount it onto the
file
> > > system but cannot see any likely candidates in the /dev/*** bit of
dmesg.
> > >
> > > What am I missing.
> > >
> > > Andre
>
> Andre,
>
> Mike is right providing you have no other SCSI devices then the camera
> should appear as sda so you should be able to mount sda1 as a FAT
> volume. However not all cameras and card readers seem to work correctly.
> My camera didn't work with 8.0 and I've never tried it since I upgraded
> to 8.1. The original compact flash reader I bought with the camera also
> failed on SuSE8.0. I have since bought a Omniflash UnoMas card reader,
> the version I have has slots for MMC/SD Smart Media, Compact Flash and
> Sony Memory sticks. I bought this as it was advertised as working with
> Linux and it does, each card slot looks like a different SCSI drive sda
> though sdd. I have read that at least some of the SanDisk card readers
> also work with Linux. I haven't bothered linking up the camera as my
> camera powers-off automatically after a few minutes which is not a good
> idea if it is still mounted as a drive, also the camera consumes a lot
> of power. My card reader is powered from the USB so you can leave the
> disk mounted as long as you like.
>
> David
>
> --
> David Bottrill <david.bottrill@ntlworld.com>
>
>
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