Re: [SLUG] usb devices

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Aug 21 2005 - 19:07:23 EDT


On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, michael hast wrote:

> >No USB connection on the camera?
> >
> Yes, it has a USB connection, but it was not on the list of cameras
> supported by gphoto. It is a SiPix SC3300.

Eh, try it anyhow. The worst that can happen is it doesn't work. Just
don't specify the type if you mount it by hand (it's probably FAT{16,32} or
vfat) and make sure usb-storage is loaded. Most are partitioned (like a
hard disk), some are not (like a floppy).

> I thought the card reader would be easier since we have it.

Apparently not.

> >> When I do a "sbin/fdisk/ -l" it shows me the two hard drives and the
> >>partitions therin.
> >
> >Same here. I have to tell fdisk to look at the card:
> >
> >[eben@pc eben]$ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda
> >
> >Disk /dev/sda: 4 heads, 32 sectors, 978 cylinders
> >Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >/dev/sda1 * 1 978 62591+ 6 FAT16
> >
> When I specify /dev/sda it doesn't show anything.

Nothing at all, or no partitions? It's not unlikely for the card to be
unpartitioned. You'd see "Disk /dev/sda: 4 heads, 32 sectors, 978
cylinders" or similar, and that's it. At least, that's what I think it'd
look like. In that case, mount sda instead of sda1.

If you got nothing instead, try /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc. Numbering starts
at sda when usb-storage is loaded, and increments for each device.

> Do I need to set up SCSI support possibly?

If you had no SCSI support, it would say "No such device or address" I
think. You can also see whether scsi.{ko,o} is loaded.

> >>I really don't know which direction to go at this point. I haven't come
> >>up with much on Googling.
> >
> >If you have cdrecord, try
> >
> >[eben@pc eben]$ cdrecord -scanbus
> >...
> >
> Apparently, I do not have cdrecord. "command not found."

There may be a smaller tool that does that, but I don't know what it is.

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