From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 04:52:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F3116A6B7 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 04:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D309C43E10 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 04:32:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Mike.Jeays@rogers.com) Received: from [192.168.2.100] ([24.43.93.57]) by fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.comESMTP <20040518113016.DXTX392202.fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com@[192.168.2.100]>; Tue, 18 May 2004 07:30:16 -0400 From: Mike Jeays To: Ben Paley In-Reply-To: <200405180909.41418.ben@spooty.net> References: <200405172050.45546.ben@spooty.net> <1084849352.10631.54.camel@chaucer> <200405180909.41418.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1084879863.10631.61.camel@chaucer> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 18 May 2004 07:31:04 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH PLAIN at fep03-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com from [24.43.93.57] using ID at Tue, 18 May 2004 07:30:16 -0400 cc: Jason Taylor cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting usb camera - no /dev/da* !!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:52:19 -0000 On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:09, Ben Paley wrote: > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 04:02, Mike Jeays wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:16, Jason Taylor wrote: > > > I have a similar situation with a Cannon Powershot A40. I can't mount > > > it, but gphoto is able to access it. I had to modify a config file or > > > two in order for the ugen devices to be created writable by anyone other > > > than root. Sorry, I don't have access to that box at the moment or I'd > > > offer something a bit more concrete. > > gphoto2 turns out to work fine, thanks very much! I wonder why Digikam doesn't > work, then? > > > I have a Canon Powershot A70, and the same problem. I bought a SanDisk > > card reader, and it works perfectly with a Compact Flash card that has > > been used in the A70. It can be mounted as > > mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt > > This may turn out to be the easiest thing in the long run: certainly my wife > and kids aren't going to want to learn a CLI for getting at their snaps. I > guess it's either a) buy a cardreader, b) get Digikam to work or c) something > else I don't know about yet. > > Thanks for both your help, > Ben My trivial shell-script called "getphotos" does what I need, with the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab, of course. If you called it from a desktop icon, it should meet the "wife and even quite young kids" standard - with absolutely no disrespect intended to your wife and/or kids! And I am quite sure several people will point out how to simplify the script. #!/bin/sh mount /flash find /flash/dcim -name "*.jpg" >/tmp/photos.txt x1=`cat /tmp/photos.txt` for f in $x1 do cp $x1 ~/pics/Raw/ done cd ~/pics/Raw chown mike * chmod -x * umount /flash