On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 19:07 -0400, Eben King wrote:
> 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.
>
There is no point dragging this out. If you can see a partition mount
it. It will act like a regular disk. What about usb-tools?
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1
James Haydon
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