Mounting a Nikon 4500 digital camera

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I stumbled upon the answer myself. Not knowing anything about scsi
is certainly a disadvantage.

The proper command is:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera
                     ^ 
It just doesn't seem right, using letters an' all instead of numbers,
but I guess there must be a good reason. I wonder what letter scsibus0
uses. I cannot tell with mount because the cdrom is using automount.

One other annoying thing, Digikam wouldn't mount this either, until I gave
the setup in Digikam the entire path to the pictures,

               /mnt/camera/dcim/100nikon

Well, the good news is that this thing mounts with lindows. I can now
get a $200 lindows box at work to tether this camera for taking pictures
of pathology specimens.  Progress.

Joel


On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 08:48:14PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> I would like to get the right command to  mount a nikon 4500 via a usb
> cable. The camera uses usb mass-storage
> 
> I can mount my nikon 2500 no problem with the following command:
> 
>      mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
> 
> When I try this with my 4500, I get two errors:
> 
> First, no media found.
> If I try the mount command again, this error appears:
> /dev/sda1 No such device
> 
> After this, the 2500 won't mount either, giving the no /dev/sda1 device,
> too.
> 
> This device going missing is no doubt due to  devfs.  If I run
> /etc/init.d/devfsd reload, the device reappears like magic, but only if
> I reattach my 2500.
> 
> The two cameras appear to attach to different scsi ports or what ever.
> Here is the output of cdrecord -scanbus when both cameras are attached:
> 
> scsibus0:
>         0,0,0     0) 'ATAPI   ' 'CD-ROM 52XMax   ' '1.20' Removable CD-ROM
> scsibus1:
>         1,0,0   100) 'NIKON   ' 'NIKON DSC E2500 ' '1.00' Removable Disk
> scsibus2:
>         2,0,0   200) 'NIKON   ' 'NIKON DSC E4500 ' '1.00' Removable Disk
> 
> The 4500 attaches to the same scsi port (2) whether of not the 2500 is attached.
> If I try to mount the 4500 with:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/camera
> I get a device not found (/dev/sda2) error. Running devfsd doesn't fix this
> problem.
> 
> As I know very little about usb and nothing about scsi or devfs, a simple
> explanation would be really appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joel
> 
> 
> 
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