Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:59:19 -0700 From: "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com> To: Alex Povolotsky <tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CF reading? Message-ID: <200301171459.19156.john@johnrshannon.com> In-Reply-To: <20030118003530.377ef7a2.tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru> References: <20030118001439.3010dd72.tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru> <200301171422.41153.john@johnrshannon.com> <20030118003530.377ef7a2.tarkhil@webmail.sub.ru>
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On Friday 17 January 2003 02:35 pm, Alex Povolotsky wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:22:41 -0700 > "John R. Shannon" <john@johnrshannon.com> 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
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