dan moylan's original posting:

>> i recently acquired a sony dsc-u30 digital camera, and see
>> no support from gphoto2 or photopc (which worked fine with
>> my olympus d340r).  i tried gphoto2 for all the sony
>> models it did support (which did not include the dsc-u30),
>> but none seemed to work.  a modestly diligent web search
>> yielded nothing worthwhile.
>>
>> does anyone have a suggestion?

g boyce writes:
> I'm not familiar with the DSC-U30, but my Sony DSC-S70
> uses the USB-Storage driver, and shows up as a SCSI disk
> under linux.

> Try loading usb-storage, and see if a new drive shows up.

lsmod shows:
	usb-storage            58156   0 (unused)
     usb-uhci               24484   0 (unused)

with the camera plugged into the usb port and connection made
(it turns on the display, showing "usb mode normal").

how do i tell when a scsi disk shows up?  gphoto2 says it
can't find the usb device.

kevin clark writes:
> I recently inherited a similar camera.  I've had success
> simply mounting the camera as a USB device.  Here's my
> /etc/fstab entry for the thing:

> /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1	vfat	user,sync,noauto,umask=0 0 0

> and then I just mount the thing with "mount /mnt/usb1".

did that, but then
mount /mnt/usb1 gives the following:

    mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

ls -l /dev/sda1 produces:

    brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,   1 Apr 11  2002 sda1

thanks, but i'm obviously missing something.
dan

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