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Date:      Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:45:25 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kenneth W Cochran <kwc@TheWorld.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Status, USB/Olympus E-10
Message-ID:  <200201062245.RAA7577679@shell.TheWorld.com>

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Hello,

A couple of committers & I were working last July (2001) with
support for the Olympus E-10 digital camera in FreeBSD.  This
is a USB device.

I just saw some commits in cam/scsi_da for Nikon & I'm wondering
what the situation is wrt Olympus?

The problem I was having was that even though FreeBSD (then
4.3-stable) would recognise the camera, if I tried to mount()
it the os would reboot(!) :((  No panic, no nothing, just a
hard freeze & rebooting.  Obviously, this is Very Very Bad.

I've seen Linux (2.4-something) working with this just fine.
Linux sees this camera as a SCSI device with a MS-DOS filesystem.

I'm now running a 4.5-PRERELEASE & wonder if, assuming this
hasn't been fixed since 4.3, that this might be fixed in 4.5?
At least if the camera isn't/can't be supported in time (for
4.5), is there some way we could at least protect the system
from the rebooting?  I can probably help test.

I'm thinking of filing a PR, but seek advice before doing that.

Many thanks,

-kc

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