[wellylug] USB and digital cameras

[Lindsay Hunter]

Yes.  On the button here with the mount command.  I plan to be more 
famliar with it.  It automounts as I have it.  Any preferences for a 
library/viewer app?

L

Ewen McNeill wrote:

>In message <3EDAE54E.7020601 at paradise.net.nz>, Lindsay Hunter writes:
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>>Anyone any experience with USB and digital cameras with RedHat9?  
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>Almost all modern digital cameras are USB-storage devices (the earlier
>ones used serial connections and the like to copy data across).
>Providing the device is recognised as a USB-storage device when plugged
>in, there's little or no work needed to make it available.
>
>On my system (Debian Linux 3.0 == Woody), Sony digital cameras are
>properly handled when plugged in.  For a couple of other digital storage
>things I have to modprobe sd_mod, but otherwise they work fine.
>
>The modules required are:
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>usb-storage (requires scsi_mod, or SCSI compiled into the kernel)
>sd_mod (or "SCSI disk" compiled into the kernel)
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>For the ones that aren't immediately recognised I modprobe sd_mod
>manually (I don't use them often enough to have gone to the trouble of
>putting the right magic in hotplug, etc).
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>Once it is recognised as a SCSI device (ie, shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi,
>or in dmesg), you'll have a /dev/sd* device (typically /dev/sda unless
>you have other SCSI devices, or have plugged in other USB-storage
>device).  
>
>You can generally list the partition table on the device with:
>
>fdisk -l /dev/sda
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>and you'll usually find there's one VFAT partition on it, which is often
>partition 1 (although some do the zip-disk thing and have partition 4
>instead).
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>Then:
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>mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
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>perhaps with some of the uid, umask, etc, options just discussed on the
>list, should make it accessible.  You can put a fstab entry in for it
>providing you mark it "noauto"; if you do you'll probably want to give
>it its own directory (eg, /camera -- which I use with mine), and mark it
>"user".  (So I just plug my camera in and do "mount /camera" as a normal
>user.)  For extra points you could set it up in the automounter.
>
>I don't use Redhat often enough to know exactly where to do some of
>these things (or have a Redhat system easily available to check) but
>hopefully that's enough to point you in the right direction).
>
>Ewen
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