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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 10:44:10AM -0800, Penguin Lover Wes Gray squawked: |
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> I've been researching getting my camera to work and I have a few questions. |
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> I'm running udev and kernel 2.6.15.1. |
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> 1) For USB mass storage to work do I still need SCSI emulation or does udev |
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> remove that requirement? |
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no. (deliberately ambiguous here to a either/or question) |
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> 2) If so do I still need to pass the kernel parameter hdc=ide-scsi? |
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no. that's only for scsi emulation of IDE devices, like DVD/CDR drives |
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for example. And to my knowledge it is no longer used nowadays as |
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cdrecord et al started supporting ATAPI... |
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> 3) Should SCSI emulation be automatic with udev, or might I need to write |
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> a rule for it? |
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first. |
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> 4) If SCSI emulation is working will I alway see a line in dmesg about a |
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> new SCSI device? Most howto's seem to suggest this but I want to |
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> be sure. |
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generally, no. You should see a line (or many lines, actually), |
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after plugging in your camera, about a mass storage device found. |
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> 5) Any other things I ought to be looking at? |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_USB_Mass_Storage_Device |
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W |
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Pintsize: The Borg were hot. |
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