Afternoon.

For a while now i've been trying to mount my Sony DSC-P8 digital camera under Slackware with not much sucess. It has been reported that you just mount it under /dev/sda and it works fine just like any other USB mass storage device. but for me sda is designated for my buner.

so heres some print outs to help you help me. thanks

dmesg
fstab
I have a Sony USB thumbdrive and that works fine. Just though that should be mentoned.
but when I try to mount my camera it reports the following

oh and I use the default 2.4.22 kernel.

thanks

Your dmesg mentions sda1, sda2 and sda4 so try them.

mount /dev/sda1 /some/folder
mount /dev/sda2 /some/other/folder
mount /dev/sda4 /another/folder

I usually use /home/andy/tmp. If you do it as root you don't need to have an entry in fstab. You don't need to specify a filesystem. At least, I don't think you do. Works for me anyway (with a different camera).

I've tried that before and just gave it another shot just to make sure but it just reports that its not a valid block device.

Striaght from the DigiKam website:

Manual Setup
If you're running a Linux distribution that doesn't set up USB Mass Storage devices automatically, here are the steps you need to follow:

* Most users using a recent Linux Distribution can skip this step.
Configure the Linux Kernel:
o Add SCSI Support
+ SCSI Support (CONFIG_SCSI)
+ SCSI IDE Support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI)
+ SCSI disk support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD)
+ SCSI generic support (CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG)
o Add USB Support
+ Support for USB (CONFIG_USB)
+ USB drivers. One or more of: ECHI HCD (CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD), UHCI (CONFIG_USB_UHCI), OHCI (CONFIG_USB_OHCI)
+ Preliminary USB device file system (CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS)
+ USB Mass Storage support (CONFIG_USB_STORAGE)
* Load the required kernel modules:
modprobe ide-scsi sd_mod sg vfat
modprobe usb-ohci (or usb-uhci depending on your usb bus)
modprobe usb-storage (or usb-uhci depending on your usb bus)
* Plug in your USB device. You should see your device listed in /proc/bus/usb/devices. If not, you need to fix the kernel or check your cabling.
* Use the sg3-utils package to determine the device name of your USB Mass Storage Device:
o Install the sg3-utils package (e.g. on Debian, Lindows: apt-get install sg3-utils)
o Connect the camera and turn it onto the picture display mode
o List your raw SCSI devices by running sg_scan -i. The output will look something like this:
/dev/sg0: scsi0 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em] type=5
_NEC CD-ROM CD-3002A C000 [wide=0 sync=0 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
/dev/sg1: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em] type=0
OLYMPUS C-120/D-380 1.00 [wide=0 sync=0 cmdq=0 sftre=0 pq=0x0]
o This tells me that I have 2 SCSI devices on my system: My CD drive on /dev/sg0, and a OLYMPUS D-380 Camera on /dev/sg1
o Determine the real SCSI device associated with your USB Mass Storage Device with sg_map. The output looks like:
/dev/sg0 /dev/sr0
/dev/sg1 /dev/sda
o Now we can match the results of these last two steps. For example the Olympus camera is on the /dev/sda device.
o In most cases, USB Mass Storage Devices will only have one partition on them, so we can safely assume that the final, mountable device is /dev/sda1 (the first partition on /dev/sda).
o Make a directory where you can mount the camera:
mkdir /mnt/camera; chmod 666 /mnt/camera
o Try mounting the camera now:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
o If no errors show up, then you have performed all the steps correctly. To verify everything is right, point you file manager to /mnt/camera and you should be able to see the folder/pictures on the camera
* Add an entry to /etc/fstab for the mount point:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
* Now it's ready to go. Any user can mount the device: mount /mnt/camera
* Make sure you unmount it before taking the card out or unplugging it: umount /mnt/camera
* Run digikam setup and add a USB MassStorage Camera. Set the path to the above path, where the camera is mounted.



I would do everything but the chmod part, I would use gid in fstab to access it.

progress report.

Gave a check run though that guide of yours ProtoformX but still nothing good has come out of it.

It defnetly seems to be on /dev/sda cause thats the only block device that reports wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems

I've gone though my dmesg outputs and its clear that its having a real hard time trying to read the FAT, usially failing and alot of I/O errors. I might have to present this issue to the Sony tech help. Hopefuly they'll know something.

I'll also borrow my bro's camera which is exactly the same and give that a shot.

I got the same problem when trying to mount my camera without any pictures on! Make sure there's a picture and then I had to do

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

even though the device showed up as /dev/sda in some stuff