How do I read digital camera on USB port with hppsmtools?
Gautam Gopalakrishnan
ggop at madras.dyndns.org
Tue Jan 6 23:51:20 PST 2004
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:11:02AM -0500, Ken Seggerman wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> > > I plug the camera into the USB port, turn on the camera, it beeps and says
> > > it is connected to a computer.
> >
> > At this stage I think you could mount the camera with the /dev/da0s1
> > device with msdosfs. Works for me with 5.1
>
> I added this to my /etc/fstab:
> /dev/da0s1 /camera msdos r,notauto,longnames 0 0
>
> created a /camera directory and did "MAKEDEV da0s1" but when I try to
> mount /camera:
>
> # mount /camera
> fstab: /etc/fstab:9: Inappropriate file type or format
> fstab: /etc/fstab:9: Inappropriate file type or format
> mount: /camera: unknown special file or file system
>
> when I try putting this line in /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/usb0 /usb msdos rw,noauto,longnames 0 0
> and
> # mount /usb
>
> I get:
> fstab: /etc/fstab:9: Inappropriate file type or format
> msdos: /dev/usb0: Block device required
This is what works for me:
/dev/da0s1 /flash msdos rw,noauto 0 0
I don't know if you need 'longnames', and 'noauto', not 'notauto'.
Also please make sure you have created the mount point :-)
Gautam
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