On Monday 31 December 2001 19:36 pm, you 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.
Yes, I know that, I apparently expressed myself badly and was less clear than I had hoped but the poster I replied to appeared to have been misled by HardDrake showing his device as /dev/sda and had then set up fstab using /dev/sda. The reference to hard drives having no numbers shown in HardDrake was intended to emphasise the point that HardDrake only shows drive names and not partitions within those drives. -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it)
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