From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 17 13:59:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CA437B401 for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.johnrshannon.com (mail.johnrshannon.com [208.141.183.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7274D43F5B for ; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:59:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@johnrshannon.com) Received: by mail.johnrshannon.com (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 0554312492; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:59:20 -0700 (MST) Received: from pablo.johnrshannon.com (pablo.johnrshannon.com [192.168.1.3]) by mail.johnrshannon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 975831248A; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:59:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from pablo.johnrshannon.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pablo.johnrshannon.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0HLxJTT066721; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:59:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from john@pablo.johnrshannon.com) Received: (from john@localhost) by pablo.johnrshannon.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0HLxJb4066720; Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:59:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from john) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "John R. Shannon" Reply-To: john@johnrshannon.com To: Alex Povolotsky , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CF reading? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:59:19 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 References: <20030118001439.3010dd72.tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru> <200301171422.41153.john@johnrshannon.com> <20030118003530.377ef7a2.tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030118003530.377ef7a2.tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200301171459.19156.john@johnrshannon.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday 17 January 2003 02:35 pm, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:22:41 -0700 > "John R. Shannon" wrote: > > JRS> I just went through this with my wife's Christmas present Canon > JRS> camera. My solution was to get a SanDisk ImageMate Reader and > JRS> connect it via USB. We remove the CF cards and read mount them lik= e > JRS> any removable device. > > What's the innate difference between Nikon as umass, Uno 4! CF reader (= got > the same result from it) and SanDisk ImageMate? AFAIK, at least Uno 4! > works under Linux. I found it interesting that the camera was recognized as a disk under uma= ss. I=20 had to use gphoto2 to recognize it as a camera. Does your camera manual s= ay=20 anything about formatting the disk for reading the CF directly? It was bu= ried=20 on page 63 of the Canon manual. > > JRS> One thing - the CF card has to be formatted with a filesystem > JRS> before you can read it. With my wife's Canon, this can be done wit= h > JRS> the camera. > > Hmm... Isn't it get shipped preformatted? Will camera work with unforma= tted > media? Yes, the camera will work with unformatted media, however, the pictures c= an=20 only be downloaded directly from the camera in that case. With the canon,= the=20 format is FAT16. --=20 John R. Shannon john@johnrshannon.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message