Hi James
i have a sony digital camera that takes movies, and it just
shows up as a usb drive.
Well, I went ahaed and purchased a sony DCR SR42.
It does not show up with usbview, ivman or in the
dmesg if I reboot and leave it attached via
usb.
I have a Sony DCR-SR32 that I use with my Gentoo Thinkpad. This is a
great little camera that works well with Linux (i.e. shows up as a USB
mass storage device). Your model is in the same range so I would
imaging the following would work for you as well.
To get the video off the camera, I do the following:
1. Plug the docking station into the wall socket and turn the wall power
on. Plug the USB lead into the laptop.
2. Attach the camera to the docking station and switch the camera on.
3. Open up the LCD display. Select the computer hard disk button.
4. At that point /var/log/messages shows something like:
Aug 13 10:07:59 obufki usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd
and address 4
Aug 13 10:07:59 obufki usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Aug 13 10:07:59 obufki scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug 13 10:07:59 obufki usb-storage: device found at 4
Aug 13 10:07:59 obufki usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before
scanning
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki Vendor: Sony Model: Camcorder Rev: 1.00
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki Type: Direct-Access ANSI
SCSI revision: 00
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki SCSI device sdb: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors
(30006 MB)
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: Write Protect is on
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: Mode Sense: 00 32 00 80
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki SCSI device sdb: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors
(30006 MB)
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: Write Protect is on
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: Mode Sense: 00 32 00 80
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sdb: sdb1
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Aug 13 10:08:04 obufki usb-storage: device scan complete
Aug 13 10:08:05 obufki scsi.agent[7784]: disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host4/target4:0:0/4:0:0:0
5. The LCD shows:
"Connecting... Do not unplug the USB cable. Do not turn off the power".
There is also an END button that you press after you have finished
transfering the video.
6. Mount the device under Linux: e.g. mount /mnt/camcorder
My /etc/fstab entry looks like:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/camcorder auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
7. cp /mnt/camcorder/mp_root/101pnv01/* ~/video
8. After video has finished transferring, umount /mnt/camcorder
9. Press the 'END' button on the camera LCD display and follow any
instructions.
The only gotcha for me was, the first time I tried this I hadn't
connected the camera to the docking station properly. You really need to
give it a good shove to make sure the connection is good.
Did you activate anything special in your kernel?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/linux $ grep -i USB .config |grep -v 'is not set'
CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUSB_SCO=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIBFUSB=y
# Supported USB Adapters
# USB devices
CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=m
# USB support
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y
CONFIG_USB=y
# Miscellaneous USB options
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
# USB Host Controller Drivers
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
# USB Device Class drivers
CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=y
# NOTE: USB_STORAGE enables SCSI, and 'SCSI disk support'
# may also be needed; see USB_STORAGE Help for more information
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
# USB Input Devices
CONFIG_USB_HID=y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
# USB Imaging devices
# USB Network Adapters
# USB port drivers
# USB Serial Converter support
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_GENERIC=y
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_VISOR=m
CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_MCT_U232=m
# USB Miscellaneous drivers
# USB DSL modem support
# USB Gadget Support
i would assume that the video recorders
would work the same way. maybe you can take a laptop to a
store that sells them and check to see if it works that way
or find someone that has one and borrow it. if you dont want
sony recorders im sure you can find another brand with the same
interface.
Well, If I cannot get it to at least mount the 30Gig HD like most
usb devices, I might just return it for another model...
ideas on things to try to get this DCR SR42 to work?
Try the above. This is a great little camera and I am really glad I
bought it.
Good luck
Garry
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