This hardware works...

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 04 June 2002 19:34 pm, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I just bought myself a SONY CYBERSHOT PSC-31 digital camera for work use.
> It sports a 2meg ccd,USB interface and uses SONY's proprietary memory
> stick for
> storage.
>
> Although there's no definitive blessing of this unit working with linux,
> it does indeed work quite well. All you do is load the usb drivers,
> sd_mod, read the output from dmesg and mount the "discoverd" scsi drive as
> a VFAT partition. Once mounted, I was able to browse the pictures with
> Konqueror.
>

Could you clarify a bit on what you did above??   I have a Sony camcorder with 
a memory card in it and it is picked up by the usb modules but I can't mount 
it as a vfat partition.   What is the sd_mod  you mention above?

I'm running SuSE 8.0 and didn't have to load the modules...  they were loaded 
automatically and the unit was seen as /dev/sda.   Looks promising.



> The PSC-31 was onsale as a special for $150.00. You can probably find
> similar deals in your locale.
>
> Cheers.

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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         06/06/02 09:57  +
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