mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!!

[Jason Taylor]

Mike Jeays wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:09, Ben Paley wrote:
> 
>>On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40.  I can't mount
>>>>it, but gphoto is able to access it.  I had to modify a config file or
>>>>two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other
>>>>than root.  Sorry, I don't have access to that box at the moment or I'd
>>>>offer something a bit more concrete.
>>
>>gphoto2 turns out to work fine, thanks very much! I wonder why Digikam doesn't 
>>work, then?
>>
>>
>>>I have a Canon Powershot A70, and the same problem.  I bought a SanDisk
>>>card reader, and it works perfectly with a Compact Flash card that has
>>>been used in the A70.  It can be mounted as
>>>mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt
>>
>>This may turn out to be the easiest thing in the long run: certainly my wife 
>>and kids aren't going to want to learn a CLI for getting at their snaps. I 
>>guess it's either a) buy a cardreader, b) get Digikam to work or c) something 
>>else I don't know about yet.
>>
>>Thanks for both your help,
>>Ben
> 
> 
> My trivial shell-script called "getphotos" does what I need, with the
> appropriate entry in /etc/fstab, of course.  If you called it from a
> desktop icon, it should meet the "wife and even quite young kids"
> standard - with absolutely no disrespect intended to your wife and/or
> kids!  And I am quite sure several people will point out how to simplify
> the script.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> mount /flash
> find /flash/dcim -name "*.jpg" >/tmp/photos.txt
> x1=`cat /tmp/photos.txt`
> for f in  $x1
> do
>   cp $x1 ~/pics/Raw/
> done
> cd ~/pics/Raw
> chown mike *
> chmod -x *
> umount /flash

gtkam is a GUI front-end for gphoto.  I added an entry to /etc/usb.conf 
to launch gtkam when the camera is connected.  Honestly, I've only tried 
it once since setting it all up, but it worked wonderfully that one time.