[ltp] Re: mounting CF card

[Atul Chitnis]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Marcus Horstmann wrote:

> so, whats the problem with that?
> 
> vfat is compatible with msdos, as shorter unique names should be visible 
> for 8.3 only users (as you may have hard times to tell which is what file).
> 
> If you don't write files to that card and only read pictures of a 
> cf-card, there is no problem, either.

Correct - this would make sense if you would mount the card in read-only 
mode. However, most people would want to copy off photos and then delete 
them from the card. From experience in the past, writing to the card 
causes some extra attributes and other information to be written to the 
card in vfat/FAT32 mode, and (at least with Kodak cameras and a few 
Sonys), this causes some cameras to get totally confused and at least one 
(my Kodak DC290 with previous firmware) to report that the card wasn't 
formatted.

> And if you use the cf as a bigger floppy (as I do) you WANT to have the
> longer filenames, with which at least W2K has no problem.

In this case I agree that vfat makes sense, but if the *only* purpose for 
the card is for use with cameras, why take chances? Those cameras *all* 
use the msdos format natively, and will never use long filenames or the 
extra attributes.

BTW - there is a mailing list dedicated to digital photography under 
Linux if anyone is interested - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dp. It 
isn't very active, but it sure is useful.

Atul

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