Hi Bill, Don't know if you're still interested in this saga but I can finally give you the conclusion. I took your advice and got the discs for a newer distro (Mandrake 9.2) and tried to install that. Fortunately I'd backed everything up because it would appear that my cdrom has or is dying. It couldn't cope with the installation (I also tried Fedora). So there I sat with two new distros, a blank Linux partition and no way to join them!
I debated replacing the cdrom but was planning on getting a new box anyway, so just brought that forward. So I now have a current distro and a current PC and it all works very well... including mounting the TRV38's memory stick! I've also got a firewire card - have you tried video editing under Linux and if so, how easy was it and what package did you use? Thanks again for all your help on my previous PC - I think, as you said, it was just too patched, too old and probably too broken! Richard On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 09:26, Richard Charlewood wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Thanks so much for writing. I haven't given up yet - but I thought about > your advice on my "patched Redhat 7.0" and, together with problems I'm > having with another application (accessing work through Citrix) and the > occasional segmentation fault, I decided it was time to make a clean > installation of a current system. I believe Mandrake works well on older > machines (mine is a Pentium I 150 MHz), so I'm going to give that a go > next week. I'll let you know once I'm up & running! > > Thanks again, > Richard > > On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Marr wrote: > > > Hi Richard, > > > > I haven't seen any more posts on the 'Linux USB Users' mailing list after my > > last reply and I was just curious if you had any more success (or failure) > > with the reading of the memory stick in the DCR-TRV38 camcorder. > > > > If you're still having trouble, haven't yet given up, and need any help, just > > let me know. > > > > Bill Marr > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
