On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:22:55 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:00:02 +1200 > Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The camera connects via a usb port. USBview shows it being connected & > > disconnected. When connected it shows as /proc/bus/usb/002/014 which is > > a document size 57 bytes but apart from using gphoto2 I can not get a > > file listing. > > > > Robert Fisher wrote: > > > On Sunday 30 April 2006 7:22 pm, Barry wrote: > > > > > >>It appears that gphoto2 can not download avi files over a certain size. > > >> > > >>After browsing google it appears that the problem may be restricted to > > >>my Canon S1 IL camera > > >> > > >>Is there another app which will handle avi downloads from this camera? > > >>It must not use libgphoto2. > > > > > > > > > Can you simply connect the camera as a mass storage device and then copy > > > the > > > files in your favourite file manager? > > > > See above, I can not find it elsewhere in the directory tree. Should it > > be mounted. > > > > Barry > > > > > > > > > does dmesg show a scsi device ( /dev/sda for example ) being attached? If so, > try mounting it on /mnt and seeing what's there. > > Steve Some cameras are usb mass storage, some are not. If the camera works with gphoto2 then its likely not to also do USB mass storage. What is the maximum size Barry? And have you tried a card reader? It will plug into your USB port and it _will_ provide a method of mounting the filesystem on the card. Some printers have card readers, my HP PSC 2210 reads SD, MMC and CF cards just fine (albeit a little slowly over USB 1.1)
