Mounting camera as mass storage usb

[clint]

Hey this is my first post here so if this has been dealt with dozens of times, I'm sorry-
I looked in the faq and searched for relevent threads..

What I'm trying to do is modify the fstab (or create an fstab) that will let me mount my ricoh rdc-5300 camera and it's internal card reader as volumes.

When started in os9, the camera mounts on the desktop as two disks, read only, filled with jpeg files.

When in osx, and I connect the camera via usb, the camera's led turns green, like it does when everything is fine in os9, but the volumes are nowhere to be found.

I believe I must mount them manually via either a mount command or better a fstab file that lets the automount thing do it for me..

I used to run mandrake linux on this imac, and was able to dig around on the web till I found instructions to mount the camera as a 'mass storage device' and modified the fstab file to make it mount in /mnt/ricoh mount point I created.

something like it had go be dev/sda0 something something /mnt/ricoh I don't remember..

Never got the card to mount, but read that it had been done- I gave up, thankful I could at least mount the camera internal memory..

So does anyone have a sample guess of what a fstab file should look like to make this happen, if I for example wanted the mount point to be /Volumes/ricoh or whatever?

Or where should I go to read about how?

If I remember right, the file structure on the ricoh is vfat.

Ricoh is no help, so anyone with even a guess, please- It sucks so bad to have to reboot into 9 then back to 10 just to post pics for ebay etc..

Thanks in advance-

please admin this to the right area if it isn't already..
clint

 

[gigi]

I would love to know if this is possible.
As for Ricoh, i will never buy another one of their porducts again.

 

[xaqintosh]

are you trying to use the camera as a storage device, or simply get your pictures? you probably need to use image capture, in the applications folder.

 

[clint]

Image capture cant mount the camera either-
when I had it working in linux, it was just a directory of read only files in my case mounted as mnt/ricoh. There is something whacked with the usb handshake or something that must be different than most cameras that can be used with image capture.

The only way i've ever herd of this group of cameras, rdc-4000, 4200, 5000, 5300 being able to get read by a linux type computer is via usb as a mass storage device.

If i understand correctly, that's what is already happening in image capture for many cameras, only this ricoh in this case isn't triggering whatever automatic thing it needs to trigger in order to be mounted by the automount or whatever it is in os x that mounts volumes via usb.

So that's why I need to know how to manually add an fstab file to the /etc directory to get it to mount. It is so frustrating, because I'm just a typed string of characters away from having my camera read-able. Ugh! anyone who figures this out will be a hero to many- the rdc 5000/5300 is an awesome digital camera, and if it had support from ricoh it would be near perfect- oh and if it were about half as big..

 

[gigi]

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