Hello again,

On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Joachim Blaabjerg wrote:

[snip]
> looking for Fuji FP 2800Z Linux support
[snip]
> was just wondering, have you been able to resolve this issue?

Good news!

I just tried the FP2800Z on Linux 2.4.19 and it worked fine.  Whatever
was causing it to crash on this machine under 2.4.18 has gone away.
It seemed to me while playing around with it that the USB system is a
little fussy about the way you load the modules, I haven't really
investigated that but here's what I did:
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1.  Compiled kernel 2.4.19 with everything as modules.
2.  Appended to /etc/fstab the lines
none           /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs  defaults        0   0
/dev/sda1      /mnt/camera   vfat      rw,noauto,user  0   0
3.  Booted.
4.  Created the mount point /mnt/camera
5.  As root gave the commands
# modprobe usb-uhci
# modprobe usb-storage
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
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And there were all my lovely images!

I don't know if I could do this with less typing (I don't really know
what I'm doing:) I've tried skipping one or both modprobe steps, and
also using different ones, but this seems to work so I'll stick there
for now.  I also haven't even attempted to write to the cards, I just
copy the entire (sub)directory to the hard disc.  There seems to be no
reason to need write access to the card, since the camera can delete
the images very easily.

I believe that it is dangerous to take the card out of the camera or
unplug its USB cable with the power switched on so I'm very careful
about that.  One more reason to use the SanDisk SDDR-09 reader when I
can (If I break that it will only cost one tenth of what the camera
cost. :) and it seems to be reliable now I've got the hang of it.

Note that this is a genuine Pentium-II system using the usb-uhci
driver.  I haven't tried it using the usb-ohci driver on the machine
in my office at work yet (AMD K6-II), and I have no pressing need to
do that.

Let me know if you have any trouble with it.

73,
Ged.

PS: There is one other thing I don't like about the camera.  It seems
to use quite a lot of power.  Eventually I had to tap into the PC's 5V
supply to feed the thing because the batteries kept going flat while I
was experimenting.  :(



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