On 8 Aug 2001, at 4:28, Day Brown wrote: >What I got is an Agfa camera with a 'Smartcard' in it, >whioh seems to have a hardware problem. Neither windoz, >dos, or linux camera software can get the jpgs off it. > >They all see the camera is there on the com port (DB-9) >but the cannot get the camera to upload. The LCD on the >camera puts up "PC mode" when connected, so it see the >computer. > >so then I find a PCMCIA reader which takes the card, >but I dont have any cable to go from that to a motherbd >or I/o card. from what I've read so far, that looks like >a cable to an IDE drive controller? Any PCMCIA [a.k.a. PC Card] reader which is not built into a notebook computer is going to do one of two things, as far as I have seen: 1. hook to a serial or USB port 2. hook to a proprietary PCI/ISA bus controller. Try finding a friend with a notebook computer, which has built-in PCMCIA slots, and see if you can read the pictures from the media that way. Compact Flash media has a special mode in which a simple adaptor can interface it to an IDE port. You also can get Compact Flash adaptors to let you use CF media in a PCMCIA slot. I would suggest that perhaps there's a problem with the cable, or port, which is preventing you from getting the pictures from the camera. If you've tried getting pictures from the camera with three OSes, then that pretty much rules out the software for it. Hope this helps, Anthony J. Albert ============================================================== Anthony J. Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems and Software Support Specialist Postmaster Computer Services - University of Maine, Presque Isle "Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind." - Charles L. Lucas To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
