On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200
robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried 
> about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to 
> be able to get at the stills in the memory chip.
> 
> The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod gives
> 
> usb-uhci               21676   0  (unused)
> usbcore                58304   1  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
> 
> A directory, /mnt/memory_card, has been created, so it's obviously 
> seeing something there.  But there's nothing showing in the directory, 
> and nothing seems to have been mounted. mount -l gives
> 
> /dev/hda5 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> none on /dev type devfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
> none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount 
> (ro,dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
> none on /mnt/floppy type supermount 
> (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
> /dev/hda1 on /mnt/windows type vfat 
> (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0) # I know, it's embarrassing!
> 
> So presumably I need to mount something manually, but which device?  USB 
> doesn't seem to work the same way as ordinary devices.  I've tried 
> googling around this, but the pages that come up just confuse me even more.
> 
> Anyone want to help out the eternal newbie?
> 
> Sir Robin
> 
> 
> -- 
> " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke 
>quarrells."
> - G. Pettie
> 
> Robin Turner
> IDMYO
> Bilkent Univeritesi
> Ankara 06533
> Turkey
> 
> www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory 
card on it is seen as usb mass storage device).  I don't know much about digital video 
cameras so i'm not sure if that's how it'll be recognized.
also look in mandrake control center's hardware / hardware list and see if you can see 
it listed there (possibly under other/unknown) and see if there's any info about it.  
then you need to find out what the /dev entry is (i don't remember for the life of me 
where i've seen how and haven't added hardware in so long i forgot)

Anyone?  how DO you know what /dev entry hardware uses? 

not sure what kind of filesystem it'd use but i'd venture a guess that it's vfat if 
it's a mass storage device that windoze reads.

now for my camera i'd (as root)

mkdir /mnt/camera
modprobe usb-storage
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

not sure if that's what you'll need to do, but it's a place to start
HTH 
jerry.

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