[NCLUG] Mass Storage Device/Digital Camera

[Rich Young]

Hi, folks.  I'm working on getting my digital camera (HP Photosmart 720)
talking to my KRUD 8.0 system.  (For the record, it never worked under 7.2
or 7.3 either, so it's not an upgrade issue.)

The built in digital camera recognizer recognizes it when it's in "Digital
Camera" mode, but it can't open or even see the camera's contents; it fails
to recognize it at all in "Mass Storage" mode.  

Meanwhile, some interesting things turn up in /var/log/messages and the file
system when I plug the camera into the USB port.  When the device is set in
"Mass Storage" mode, the machine assigns it a USB location, assumes it's a
CD, mounts it as /mnt/cdrom1, and then issues a cute little "this disk
doesn't contain any tracks I recognize" message.  /mnt/cdrom1/ shows as an
empty directory -- the only reason I know it's the camera is that it appears
& disappears when I hotplug/unplug the camera.

I've tried using the mount -t xxxxx command with all the various filesystem
types listed in the mount man page to find out the device bound to that
mount point, but I'm not finding it.  I suspect that it's just a matter of
unmounting it, and mounting it again as -t msdos (what I've been told the
camera uses for file structure).  But I can't remount it unless I know where
in the /dev tree the thing lives. 

So, anyone have any ideas?  

--Rich