Re: Trying to connect a digital cam to my PC

["J.F.Gratton" <grajea02@hotmail.com>]

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Thank you, Craig and Mario V.

I should have thought about google, true <sigh>.

Since I don't use any other mass storage devices, I guess I'll use the
workaround you mentionned.

I've thought of another solution this morning, totally unsatisfactory:
I'm running a Win2K machine in a VMWare host, and it is able to talk to
my cam. This is only a quick fix until I go with the workaround.

Thanks again folks !

Jeff

> 
> You might get faster answers to questions like these if you search Google
> first. As it happens, "Olympus D520Z USB Linux" turns up the following
> page as the very first result:
> 
>   http://software.jodda.de/camediac220.html
> 
> which explains that the D520Z, like many other Olympus cameras, has a
> defective USB implementation that the Linux USB code doesn't handle
> well. There is a workaround, but it involves making your computer
> incompatible with other USB storage devices.
> 
> My daughter has another model of Olympus digital camera that neither
> Windows nor Linux can reliably talk to because of this same problem. Our
> solution was to buy a SmartMedia card reader that works with Linux, and
> use that rather than plugging the camera directly into the computer. The
> SanDisk SDDR-75 is an inexpensive reader for both SmartMedia and
> CompactFlash cards that works very nicely for us. The only little trick
> it requires is that you have to make sure your Linux kernel was compiled
> with support for multiple-LUN SCSI devices (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN),
> since the SmartMedia slot appears as a second LUN.
> 
> Craig