On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:41 -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: > [snip] > > > > NOTE: A digital camera shows up as an USB drive, i.e. a DOS > > drive -> e.g. /cygdrive/<next free letter> - and is available > > so long as the camera stays ON (it eventually WILL go OFF > > after last use, just as your screen blanker! Depending on how > > you've set it or use it.) > > > > A USB Mass Storage Device that does this is poorly designed at best, and > probably not compliant with the USB specification. I can't recall a > situation where a device is allowed to just "disappear" once plugged in and > enumerated without the user doing something (a bus-powered device anyway). > You should see if there is a firmware upgrade available for it.
Poorly designed or not, that is the way a Minolta Dimage Z1 behaves, at least mine does - with my current settings. As this a year++ old device I really see it as "out of date" and not prone to have FW upgrades available. OTOH, I find it more alarming as the situation creates fs problems, which actually happens when Windows is involved. (I have yet to see this problem on Linux) NOTE: I ALWAYS run it on batteries. (One round of batteries lasts all from two weeks to 3 hours - depending on how intensely I use it. A three hour sojourn gives me a full CD of images at least.) > Then again, I know firsthand that Microsoft had USB Mass Storage pretty > wildly wrong as late as the release of XP SP...2 I think, maybe 1, so who > knows, could be MS's fault. Might be so, wouldn't be a big surprise - I run this camera against 2k, XP and Linux (cygwin involved on Wins). OT -> END of THREAD. /Hannu E K Nevalainen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
