mounting a digital camera USB device

Bill Nash plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 18:48:57 +0000 (UTC)


Check your `dmesg` output and see what the kernel reports when it detects
the device. There may be helpful information there.

- billn


On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Lynn David Newton wrote:

>
> In late August this group had a thread about accessing
> digital cameras in which contributors talked about
> various methods of accessing the camera from a Linux
> system.
>
> I've had a Sony Mavica CD1000, the type that uses 8cm
> 157MB CD-R disks for a couple of years. I've always
> just mounted them as ordinary CDs. I can also attach
> the camera to the USB bus and mount it, but have never
> even tried it until tonight.
>
> I just did, turned on the camera, sure enough it comes
> up and says "PC MODE USB" in the display. I run usbview
> and sure enough, up comes a window with an entry that
> says MCV-CD1000, which shows all the device data wen I
> click on it.
>
> However, what device should I be able to use to mount
> this beast??? And what "type" option, i.e.,
>
> mount -t whazzis /dev/whatgoeshere /mnt/point
>
> Thanks much,
>
> --
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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