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

[Robert Zeller]

Michael,

thanks for this very interesting information. Since I am waiting for the
successor to the D300s as a replacement for my D200, I think we Nikon
users should try to exert some pressure upon Nikon such that they again
implement the mass storage feature along with the PTP option in the
camera firmware! Nonetheless I believe that the real problem lies in the
SuSE 11.2 implementation of handling PTP usb devices. Not only digikam
is effected by the Suse flaw: I used to use gtkam to directly control my
D200 from the PC, and that doesn't work either since 11.2 because it
relies on PTP.

Robert

On 02/10/2010 09:14 AM, Michael Gerdau wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> a few days ago I asked for advice as to how I could directly access the
> CF card in my Nikon D700 which used to work with openSUSE 11.1 and no
> longer works with openSUSE 11.2.
>
> While my problem couldn't be solved the information provided by Robert
> Zeller ultimately helped me to search for the proper keywords to get
> the picture.
>
> For those interested and with similar problems, here is a summary.
>
> It seems the openSUSE USB handling has improved between 11.1 and 11.2
> in that with 11.2 they have special treatment for PTP devices which
> openSUSE lacked in 11.1 (back then all such devives would open as disks).
>
> This is no problem with cameras like the Nikon D200 whose USB interface
> can be switsched between PTP and mass storage. However the Nikon D700
> does not have such a switch. In a Nikon forum I found the claim that all
> professional Nikon cameras don't have such a switch. There two posters
> claimed that a Nikon serviceperson had written them this switch set
> wrongly had triggered too many service requests so Nikon decided it
> is not needed. Well...
>
>
> At this point in time there seems no option other than using a cardreader
> which worked nicely in my case (D700 firmware is now updated).
>
> For the future one may hope that openSUSE will present the option to
> treat a PTP device like a mass storage device upon user request. In
> an openSUSE forum I found a poster claiming he'd written a bugreport
> to that end. I didn't investigate that any further though.
>
> Hope this helps others with similar problem, best wishes,
> Michael
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