[ltp] usb digital camera help

[Jim Harvey]

luca pisani wrote:
> Hi...
> I'm trying to use Fujifilm digital camera mv-1 with linux (slackware 8.1 
> kernel 2.4.21) on thinkpad 600E
> How can I mount the device?
> Witch type of file system?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bye Luca
> 

My Fuji S602 shows up as /dev/sda1.  I have the following in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1     /mnt/usbflash     vfat    noauto,user,mask=022,exec

And I can mount /mnt/usbflash from a user account.  It doesn't always work 
though.  I bought a SanDisk USB reader for the Compact Flash cards and it will 
mount with the same fstab entry.  I also have a PCMCIA compact flash adaptor and 
that mounts as /dev/hde1.  It works better, but can't be used with another 
PCMCIA card in the second card slot.  I can run fdisk on the flash cards from 
the PCMCIA adaptor or from the SanDisk adaptor, but a SanDisk partitioned CF 
won't work in the camera while the PCMCIA partioned one will.

One other thing, the SanDisk did not work reliabily when I got it, I had much 
better luck when I plugged it in through a powered USB hub.  Apparently the 
laptop does not provide enough power to the USB string to handle a 128 meg CF card.
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