I've been having problems getting my usb card reader to be recognized properly. I think I may have come upon some clues, anyway. When I have my card reader plugged in, with or without booting the computer with a card in the reader, a 'modprobe usb-storage' will result in an SDA being created, and Hardrake sees the thing as a 1 gig scsi drive. Even if I remove the card, it still sees the card reader as a 1 gig drive. But I've found that if I plug in my usb-equipped Olympus C-700 (not listed in gPhoto, btw, and none of the other entries seem to want to work with it), I find that it is recoginzed, it sees that it has 64 megabytes, and when I remove the card, Hardrake reflects that, giving a capacity of zero, and setting a couple of the other parameters to -1. I think that the misidentifying of the card reader's capacity is possibly part of the problem with mounting it - I am successful in mounting the Olympus. I don't know of a way to tell it, hey, this card reader is just 64 megs, or should be treated just like the camera when I plug it in. But at least I'm getting closer!
skidley wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, poogle wrote: > > >>I may be completely off base here but I'll try anyway, I have an Olympus USB >>camera which uses Smartmedia cards but is not recognised by any of the >>"photo" packages. >>Thanks to Ric Tibbets I am able to download from it by doing the following:- >> >>modprobe usb-storage >>mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/cam (where /mnt/cam is the mountpoint I created) >> >>Checking Hardrake it shows my camera as a disk called /dev/sda, note it does >>not show it as /dev/sda1 which it is but then HDs are shown as /dev/hda & >>/dev/hdb, again no drive number. It may be that you need to modprobe >>usb-storage and then mount it as /dev/sda1 >> >>BTW, I don't know anything about saving to such a device. >> >> > A drive doesn't have a number, partitions have numbers. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > -- Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
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