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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2001 18:15:18 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        david@burren.cx, chad@DCFinc.com, jamil_taylor@pobox.com (Jamil Taylor), wyrdwulf@catskill.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: digital camera 
Message-ID:  <200105190115.f4J1FIA19234@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <15109.50703.63762.224928@guru.mired.org> 
References:  <chad@DCFinc.com> <200105181747.KAA21139@freeway.dcfinc.com> <19682.990231960@burren.cx> <15109.50703.63762.224928@guru.mired.org>

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If memory serves me right, Mike Meyer wrote:
> david@burren.cx types:
> > I haven't investigated getting data off SmartMedia or MemoryStick
> > cards.
> 
> I don't know about MemoryStick, but SmartMedia is a nightmare. The
> interface is proprietary, and ugly. You write magic values to sector
> zero to make blocks appear in sector 1, or some such. That it uses
> SmartMedia instead of CompactFlash is one of my few problems with my
> Olympus. That they gave me a SmartMedia->Floppy disk adaptor doesn't
> really help much.

I have a Sony DSC-P1.  It uses MemorySticks, and it has a USB port.  If
I plug the camera into my 4.3-STABLE machine, the MemoryStick shows up
as a USB-attached disk with an MS-DOS filesystem on it.

Bruce.




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