Re: [gentoo-user] Getting Photos From A Digital Camera

[Dale]

Adrian wrote:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:44:00 +0200
> "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote
> the words:
>
>
>> On Saturday 02 September 2006 16:20, Adrian wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:05:43 +0100
>>>
>>> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote the words:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday 02 September 2006 08:06, sdoma wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Why not set up your camera to act as a USB disk?
>>>>> I do it this way and use the very special tools like ``mount'',
>>>>> ``ls'' and ``cp'' ;o)))))))))))))
>>>>>
>>>> I second this.  Just set something like:
>>>> =================================================
>>>> /dev/sda   /mnt/sda    auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
>>>> /dev/sda1  /mnt/sda1   auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime     0 0
>>>> =================================================
>>>> depending on what your camera's flash memory is recognised as
>>>> (look in your dmesg output when you plug it in) and then use ls,
>>>> or your file manager to look at and manipulate its contents.  If
>>>> you have hald it should be picked up automatically without you
>>>> having to create the /mnt/sda directory or manually mount/umount
>>>> the device.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Mick
>>>>
>>> Actually, this was the first thing I tried.  I can not convince the
>>> camera to mount however.
>>>
>>> All I get from dmesg is:
>>>
>>> usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 5
>>> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
>>>
>>>
>>> I tried your suggestions in my fstab and all I get is:
>>>
>>> mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist
>>>  or
>>> mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
>>>
>>> depending on which /dev/sda* I use in fstab.
>>>
>>>
>> and you have usb-storage and scsi-disk support at least as modules
>> and modprobed them?
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>>
>>
>>
> I have usb-storage as a module, and have confirmed it is loaded with
> lsmod.
>
> scsi-disk support is build in to my kernel.
>
> I can plug in a usb storage device and it works fine.  example:
>
> ------------------
>
> scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 17
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor: SEAGATE   Model: ST660211USB       Rev: 4.06
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> SCSI device sda: 11719008 512-byte hdwr sectors (6000 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 11719008 512-byte hdwr sectors (6000 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: sda1
> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi9, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
>
> --------------------------
>
> Maybe either
>
> a. this camera simply isn't linux compatible
>
> b. I need some other module for it
>
>
>
>
>
>


Well, I have a Canon camera and mine will not work like that either.  I
use gtkam to get my pictures and it works fine.  May want to try that. 
I did run into permission problems at first.  May want to try it as root
if running it as user fails.

Hope that helps.

Dale

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