Mounting a Nikon 4500 digital camera

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Thu, 01 May 2003 21:20:51 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> 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.

There is NO good reason at all. It is totally asinine. It is one reason for
devfs.

The dread (on this list) UnixWare at least uses the SCSI ID of scsi devices
to locate them. Of course, it does not map every device under the sun (i.e.,
those without physical IDs) as a SCSI device. But at least devices are a bit
more predictable as to their location in the file system.

I don't recall the name (included in the latest red hat, for example), but
there is a new subsystem that allows you to map devices to names in some
meaningful manner.

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