usbfs, for lack of a better description, is like devfs but for USB ports.
It's appearance as a mounted volume is normal.
USB and flash drives usually come up as SCSI disks (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb,
etc.).
SWB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@nks.net [mailto:slug@nks.net] On Behalf Of Chuck Hast
> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 7:21 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Kodak Digital Camera
>
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:26:32 -0500, Mike Branda <mike@wackyworld.tv>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 20:27, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 19:27:41 -0500 (EST), Eben King
> > > <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I have a DX6490, when I plug it into my SuSE machine the computer
> > > > > immediately recognizes it and a entry appears under /drives called
> > > > > Digital Camera. When I go into it I find another directory called
> > > > > Kodak DX6490,
> > > >
> > > > How are you going into it? camera browser/directory browser/text/?
> > > Browser/directory
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Can you mount the camera wherever (find its ID with "mount", umount
> it,
> > > > mount it at any old place) and copy pictures off manually?
> > >
> > > Here is the response from 'mount'
> > > kp4djt@rf-tool:~> mount
> > > /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
> > > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> > > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
> > > /dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs
> > > (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls=utf8)
> > > /dev/hdc on /media/cdrecorder type subfs
> > > (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
> > > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> > > kp4djt@rf-tool:~>
> >
> > Chuck, I don't know if you ever resolved this but I think the pseudo-
> > scsi thought path people have been recommending is off on this one.
> > Usually Firewire and USB HD's mount at /dev/sda or something similar but
> > looking at your mount output the last line raises a flag in my mind.
> >
> > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw).
> >
> > That probably doesn't leave you in a better place but it gives you
> > something to maybe google for!! :^) If you haven't solved this yet
> > I'll probably put some more effort into it with you since I run SuSE 9.1
> > and will hopefully be getting a new digital from Santa for Christmas!!
> > by now you may have just bought a card reader though....
>
> Mike, thank you, I was thinking that it had something to that effect but
> was not sure exactly what. I have been busy on other stuff, like getting
> ready to do a "can you hear me now?" for the Sheriff here in Hillsborough
> Co. I have probably 3 different readers floating around just would be nice
> not to have to have one for the camera if I do not need it.
>
> I am real happy with 9.1, though I have already had a Reisers FS failure,
> took down the whole thing, not such a big deal though. I re-loaded it
> and was not paying attention and set up Reisers again, I wanted to do
> ext3 as I feel a lot more at home with it. I guess in order to do it I
> will have
> to back everything up and re-load it making sure I set up ext3 rather than
> Reiser.
>
> Beyond that, I also have been putzing with the ax25 stuff, but the system
> hangs and I have to do a hard reboot in order to recover (do not like that
> particularly with Reiser....
>
> I would suspect that there is a good bit of the ax25 stuff that has not
> been
> re-done for 2.6.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
> out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
> and twisted metal."
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