At Wed Nov 28 17:09:17 2001, Armin Roehrl wrote:
> I know by now that the Nikon 775 works.
> I'm sorry I do not know anything about usb-storage to help
> you about the id problem. If I find out, I get back to you.

Has anyone considered spending a few extra bucks and grabbing a USB-enabled
CompactFlash card reader?  I have a Microtech Cameramate (I think that's
the name) which I've used with 3 different digital cameras and an MP3
player.

It requires a new enough kernel (I started with 2.4.5) with USB Mass Storage
compiled in.  You'll also want to support MSDOS FAT filesystems, as most
digital devices that use CompactFlash cards format them in a FAT12
filesystem.  When you want to copy files over, stick the CF into the reader,
mount the filesystem, and use cp. :-)

When you upgrade your camera later (like I have a couple of times) you can
likely continue to use the very same CF card reader.  You don't need special
software (I dislike what's happened to GPHOTO...) to use it.

Give it some thought.  It takes some extra work and hacking away, but isn't
that kinda why we're all using Linux to begin with? :-)

corvette# mount /flash
corvette# df /flash
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1              1051648     52224    999424   5% /flash
corvette# cd /flash/dcim/100ncd1x/
corvette# ls -l
total 52128
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     17774352 Nov 25 00:37 dsc_0001.tif*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     17771822 Nov 25 00:38 dsc_0002.tif*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root     17773580 Nov 25 00:38 dsc_0003.tif*

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