[Digikam-users] Can't load camera as disk

[Michael Gerdau]

Hi list,

I'm a happy camper with digikam. It works nicely together with my
Nikon D700. No complaints...well, almost ;)

Very rarely I need to directly access the flashdrive in my camera.
Last time I did that was with openSUSE 11.1. Back then I could mount
the camera as just an ordinary disk.

However these days with openSUSE 11.2 and digikam 1.0.0 on KDE 4.3.5
this is no longer possible. When I plug the camera into my computer it
is detected as "USB Imaging Interface" and all I can do is open it with
digikam. That is just fine most of the time.

However today I wish to do a firmware update of my camera and that
requires me to write the new firmware into the root dir of the flashdrive.


By searching various openSUSE forums I have learned others seem to have
a similar problem. Unfortunately there has been no solution or I have't
been able to find it.


Is this a problem with hal or is it a feature of digikam taking over
complete control of my camera ?

Can anybody shed some light here and enlighten me what happens. Even
more appreciated would be advice how I could copy the firmware into
the root of my flashdrive (and later remove it without formatting it).

And no, I don't own a cardreader (apart from the camera).

Best wishes,
Michael
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 Michael Gerdau       email: mgd at qata.de
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