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On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 12:55:02PM -0400, Pat Regan wrote: > [24 lines, 180 words, 985 characters] Top characters: etaironh > > On 2004年9月19日, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > > > I want to copy a removable media file system without mounting it. The > > reason is that my friend's digital camera writes these cards in a way > > that is not readable to my machine while my digital camera writes them > > in a way that is readable. I'm curious to see if I can tell the > > difference, including potentially mounting the filesystem image rather > > than the original. > > > > Are you sure the camera presents itself as a USB Mass Storage Device? I > can't speak for all recent cameras, but I recently ran into one that > defaulted to PTP mode (Picture Transfer Protocol?). This particular > camera had an option buried somewhere down inside it's menu to switch it > between PTP and Mass Storage. > > If the camera doesn't support USB Mass Storage, I believe you have to pick > a program that uses gphoto as a backend to read the pics. > > Either way, the card probably still has a FAT filesystem, the camera just > isn't letting you get at it. The camera isn't involved except to write the CF card. Forget the camera. I have a CF card and a USB CF reader. The CF card in the reader plugged into my machine is a mountable device. (Technically, it has a filesystem that is mountable.) -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> +1 215/837-2287 GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20
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